Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From here on they are peace correspondents - but how can a man understand the deeper meanings of peace unless he also understands the blood and sweat and sacrifices by which that peace was bought...
G.I.s stared with cold curiosity at the impressive wreckage of the Japanese Imperial Army. The tough brown soldiers, ragged, weary, grim, clung to packed trains and swarmed the roads, following the long way home from war. City dwellers cheered them, but unbombed rustics, who could not understand the surrender, jeered. The main Jap army was unbeaten in the field, but Leyte, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa had convinced Japan's rulers that their army could not win a battle...
Those who could and would talk displayed a wide range of reaction. Few could understand why Tokyo had been bombed and could see no point in comparing it with Manila's destruction...
...same time he promised to "hold down the cost of food, clothing and rent . . . establish far more effective controls in building materials and house construction . . . see to it that more low-priced women's and children's clothing comes on the market at easy-to-understand, ceiling prices...
...hypothalamic proclivities" when they are released through concussion from "the higher control of the cortex," the special ist began to draw the marks of the wound on a scratch pad. "A person in this state," he concluded, "may find ... his disability offers a convenient escape from responsibilities, you understand...