Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jeep repaired in Neufchâteau. The garage operator, a brawny Frenchwoman, immediately questioned him about American soldiers sleeping with German girls. "C'est incroyable" she mourned. "Yes, some French girls slept with Germans when they were here. But only bad girls. We do not understand why you Americans do it. You are not bad but you still sleep with Germans." An American sergeant lounged at a nearby corner watching the thin traffic in Neufchâteau's one big street; he turned loose barbaric French at passing girls; they giggled, and swept on. Wearily he jerked...
...G.I.s, ill-prepared for the occupation at any stage, were totally unprepared for this. Newcomers, replacing the combat veterans, lacked even the stimulus of a dimming anger. Most of the officers who were supposed to help them understand often needed more help than the G.I.s...
Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...
Anybody could understand Main Street. Novelist Lewis' style might be rasping and insistent, but it was no more complicated than a buzz saw. Main Street's narrative neatness made it as readable as a Saturday Evening Post story. And Author Lewis had a phonographic knack for recording the hodgepodge patter of U.S. provincial speech that at best was inspired, at worst vivid vaudeville. As a storm of controversy whipped up the sales, Main Street ran through eleven printings in less than four months...
...Boys," said he, "I can't tell you what Stalin talked about. Before I left Washington I learned Russia would like a $6-billion credit from the United States. Now I understand Russia is prepared to become a good customer of the United States. Now, I believe Russia wants that credit to help reconstruct war damage and build up the living standard of the Russian people, and not for the purpose of further development of military power. Everything I've seen and everything that's been said to me strengthens that impression. Boys...