Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'd all perish together, and in this 20th Century...
...Sale. In Effingham, Ill., John Trett couldn't understand why money kept disappearing from his café cash register; finally dismantled the machine, uncovered a tidy mouse nest constructed of $1 and $5 bills...
Nothing Doing. Taber hinted at cutting down Greek-Turkish aid. Said Marshall: Nothing doing. He wanted the whole $400 million. Russia must be made to understand that the U.S. is not backing down one inch. Who would administer the funds? Said the Secretary: "I'll name that man or men, and not the White House...
Congress, Marshall made plain, was not going to run the State Department so long as he was Secretary. Nor were the Appropriations Committees going to run it. Cooperation, yes-he wanted to get along with Congress. But he wanted them to understand that the Secretary of State, just as much as they, was working for the good of the country. Bridges and Taber, blunt men themselves, departed, impressed...
...couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office building that narrow can be efficiently done." Engineer Max Foley, president of the New York Building Congress, was a little kinder. "There must be something in that darn thing," said he, "that I don't understand...