Word: understands
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...story written by Associate Editor Burton Pines, got a quite different impression of the mood of the Navy when he attended a high-ranking strategy forum at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Says Nelan: "The atmosphere was awash in gloom and doom. The admirals could not understand why America's seapower was, as they saw it, being cut back to the danger point. They were puzzled as much as angry, feeling misunderstood and ill-used...
...negotiations he is now undertaking with the Soviet Union on the limitation of strategic arms. The control of nuclear weapons is one of the pre-eminent problems of our period, and it should not be lightly linked with other issues. But it is important that the Soviet Union understand that another move of the kind we have seen in Angola and Ethiopia will raise the presumption that we are facing a global geopolitical challenge incompatible with any definition of detente. Under those circumstances I do not see how any agreement could possibly be ratified and how detente could survive...
Corkin said yesterday he does not understand why Harvard does not want him to serve as the officer for the appeal. "I am absolutely unbiased towards Mr. Meserve. I have only respect for him," he said...
...call up a picture of your father's death, of the agony on his face as they were tearing out his tongue. Think of the blood streaming from his mouth, and recall his screams, like a tortured animal (Pause). Now think of Caligula (Pause). Now try to understand...
Caesonia asks not just Scipio, but the entire audience, to empathize with Caligula and to understand the magnitude of his misery--the torture that drives an individual to such sadism. But Martinez delivers the lines in a flip, spiteful tone--not at all imploringly or sensitively--and, as a result, another numeral of the combination to the play's thematic lock fails to click with the audience...