Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri Waltz' is not among the tunes the band intends to play," Howard said. "We understand that the President doesn't like the song...
...black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along. If so, that was a German chance...
...difficulty of living with the atom bomb is not that few people have read Aristotle, but that so few people understand or care about the structure of contemporary society. The main task is to set people thinking about social questions, and to have them take seriously their own obligations. ... It is this practical problem . . . which must engage the attention of those who plan to save civilization by education, rather than the discussion of moral ideals by people who need only great books, a room and some company, in order to save...
Former foot soldiers, who regarded even a regimental headquarters as a soft spot, may also find it hard to understand Allen when he writes: "Tailors and bootmakers in neighboring towns were deluged with rush orders for smart battle jackets and combat boots . . . high-geared action, hard-hitting competence, and breezy cockiness became HQ Third Army's fixed character and tempo. It moved, talked, and fought, fast, tough, and hard...
There is a suspicion that Robert destroyed some Lincoln papers. Portrait for Posterity, a knowing study of the major Lincoln biographers, will help many students to understand, if not to condone Robert's stubborn attitude on the subject Lincoln's first biographers were generally more interested in mythmaking and ax grinding than in fact-finding and scholarship...