Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing nobody could understand was a strange lack of hurly-burly in Brooklyn, where silent Leo (The ex-Lip) Durocher, back-room exile, was busy fitting young arms and legs (products of the Dodgers' farm system) into his batting order. A reporter asked him: "Are you going to worry every club to death, like last year?" Answered The Lip: "I wasn't here last year. Remember...
...office at 11. Then I called Ezra Van Horn [the operators' representative] and gave him the same spiel. He said he would see me at 11. When they arrived I took them into my office and said, 'Gentlemen, this thing has got to be settled. I understand that the whole dispute hangs on getting a referee-a third trustee for the pension fund...
...Reds were replying, to Christians who would listen, that they were not atheists at all. They had all but dropped the hammer & sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...
Said Sheik Yaseen el Bakri, head of some of the Old City's Arab forces: "We understand the food situation is very bad in the Jewish quarter. It will be no more than two weeks before they have to surrender. After the 15th of May, if there is no foreign interference, it will take no more than three months to solve the Palestine problem...
...come to us very soon again and to write one more book about Czechoslovakia. About Czechoslovakia suffering and yet not despairing, afflicted by evil and believing in good, limiting freedom and democracy for some only to give it back, revived and strengthened, to all. I think you would understand. Zdenek...