Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LeMay's men have always understood two things: 1) an order is just that-the Old Man never checks up on an order, but disobedience brings dismissal; 2) the Old Man never orders anything he can't do himself. A favorite LeMay conference remark: "Now, does everybody understand this? If not, I'll show you how to do it myself...
...jury demanded to hear testimony from Pierre Laval. Both prosecution and defense objected. Presiding Judge Pierre Mongibeaux decided: "Nobody will understand if we do not hear Laval now. . . . I would like to see the Marshal, who was only a piece of bric-a-brac in Laval's hands, brought face to face with his 'evil genius...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...
Sobbed Albert Lebrun, 74, last President of the Third Republic: "I cannot understand how [Pétain] allowed himself ... to do such blameworthy things. . . . A warrior of France . . . risen so high to have fallen so low!" (A juryman demanded that the Marshal answer a question-"His honor is at stake!" Quavered the prisoner: "I heard nothing. I don't even know what's going on." Snapped Judge Mongibeaux: "I know perfectly well he hears...
Improvements in service and equipment Jeffers could understand, but he had no patience with luxury for de luxe sake. When Board Chairman W. Averell Harriman proposed the U.P.'s skiing resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeffers said disgustedly: "The only thing I ever did with snow was to shovel it the hell off the track. Now you want to play with...