Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English-language broadcast from Japan, Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki was quoted as saying, "I must admit that Roosevelt's leadership has been very effective and has been responsible for the Americans' advantageous position today. For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing means to the American people and my profound sympathy goes to them...
...German Foreign Office worker was captured on the western front last week by the U.S. First Army. He was talkative: "There will be no capitulation-you will have to occupy every town in Germany. You can't imagine or understand the Ger man people. They are living in a completely different world, one of heroism and romanticism. The fact that they have no manufacturing centers remaining doesn't make any difference to them...
...disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that has ruled his life is a suicidal anachronism in a world threatened by global gangsters...
...this week, shortly after the hearings opened, Bretton Woods got its first resounding boost. A steady barrage of criticism from big U.S. bankers-almost the only Americans who professed to understand these highly important but technical matters-had given the Bretton Woods proposals a bad press ever since they were signed. The final official say of the American Bankers Association (TIME, Feb. 12) was that the proposed World Reconstruction Bank was sound, but not the Monetary Fund, from which countries could borrow foreign funds when lopsided trade threatened temporarily to restrict their purchases...
...lawyer can understand how a lawyer can represent someone who does not exist. The general idea is to prevent possible future offspring of living heirs from contesting the disposition of a trust fund...