Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catechesis. In Chicago, Helen Kelly, 60, threatened with eviction because she kept eleven cats in her apartment, assured a judge that if he allowed her to keep two, there would be no new kittens: "I shall speak to them and warn them against it. They understand...
...bourgeois") to charge the U.S with bolstering Italian reaction. To date, the one substantial result of last winter's $100,000,000 rehabilitation credit from the U.S. has been a $5,000,000 tobacco deal. Italians who think, beyond bread, about such matters as the Truman Doctrine cannot understand the U.S.: on the one hand, Washington opposes high German reparations to Russia and strikes a bold attitude in the Middle East, while on the other hand it stands pat on the Italian peace treaty which makes the Adriatic virtually a Yugoslav lake and, on Russian insistence, further drains Italy...
...abiding spirit. Through the window from my hospital bed in New York I watched the endless heavy traffic. Thousands of cars went by upon the street day and night-and only a few police guided them. It was very remarkable. . . . In China . . .we must teach the masses to understand responsibility . . . develop a law-abiding spirit...
Added California Schoolmarm Kathryn H. Martin, in the educational magazine Clearing House: "People who are too smart rarely make good teachers [because they] can't understand why other people make so many mistakes. . . . If I didn't remember how I felt about long division, I'd go berserk some day when I see 'there' and 'their' mixed up for the one-millionth time. . . . The most interesting thing about teaching is not what-you already know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would...
Wallace repeated his denunciation of the Truman doctrine as "the first step towards ruthless Imperialism." When a questioner wondered whether he thought the Russians were trying to understand the U. S., Wallace grinned: "I think both sides are trying about equally hard...