Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of job you are supposed to be doing as a trade-union leader and talk about the money you would like to have for your people and let the labor statesmanship go to hell for a while? Reuther: Translate that so I know what you mean. ... I understand you think our position makes it more difficult to work out a solution because we are getting into issues here that lie outside the narrow limits of collective bargaining...
...noted the "fatuous satisfaction" in the Russian press over Soviet Russia's soccer victory in England (TIME, Nov. 26), and quoted a sample from the Moscow News: "Would it not, perhaps, be well to get to know us better? Better knowledge of us might, perhaps, help foreign observers understand other things about us besides sports...
Said Atkinson: "This temperamental remark . . . assumes that the effort toward understanding is to come all in one direction. . . . Living in isolation behind inhospitable borders, Russia dwells in an atmosphere of self-congratulation. . . . Despite the warmheartedness of the individual Russian people . . . Russia is not trying to understand us as eagerly as many Americans are trying to understand Russia. In such matters Russia imports a great deal more than she exports...
...after week, in his weekly Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Sept. 24), Editor Giannini proclaims the word with rising fervor. "It is my son's loss [in the war] that makes me hate politicians' interference. From my sorrow was born the idea of Uomo Qualunque. Bereaved fathers will always understand each other if politicians do not interfere." Uomo Qualunque's circulation rose on this rhetoric to 800,000, Italy's highest...
...enormously flourishing state of their union reflects teamwork as much as it does talent. Lindsay & Grouse shrewdly understand the artistic limits of collaboration. Two men, Lindsay once remarked, may write a great show-only one man can write a great play. They are never selfconscious. When need be, they are brutally frank with each other...