Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here you will find that we have partly used your article on General Brereton's airborne army (TIME, Aug. 21). You must excuse us if we have infringed your printing rights and our sending this letter in carbon copy. As you will understand, we have to avoid the imprint of letters of this kind on our typewriter ribbons. Four years of fighting the Gestapo have taught us to be careful. Our press and readers thank you for all the good stuff you have given us, and we would like you to bring this greeting to your readers...
...wide variety of ticklish diplomatic junkets. They have carried him at least three times across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and into six continents-to Moscow, Canberra, Cairo, Kabul, Natal and points between and beyond. Franklin Roosevelt once confessed that only two men on earth understand how he and Pat manage to get along together: the other man is Pat himself...
From Moscow's Red Star had come an authoritative growl: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime is an international problem that must be dealt with." Dictator Franco "and his German masters must understand that, having finished with the Germans, the United Nations will solve the Spanish problem also...
Author Werfel's personal credo: everything in the universe has meaning. The world is "a creation of spirit and love," and man can realize God's existence without being able to understand His Being, "just as one might touch a mountain without being able to embrace...
Preston Sturges has the ability, all too rare among Hollywood's directors, to understand and to portray sympathetically honest human emotion. He succeeds where others fall, in avoiding the maudlin and trite by weaving just the right amount of humor into a situation. He succeeds so well that it is often a question whether the humorous frame rather than the theme is the dominant note in the motion picture...