Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve far more than had been expected from the Bermuda Conference. Before and during the Bermuda talks, debate on the business of international security had been conducted in confused terms and at a languid tempo which showed Eisenhower that the implications of The Atom were not clearly understood...
...Doctrines. "There is another point that to me is significant . . . These forces were assembled, trained and armed at a time when the American stockpile of atomic weapons was measured in limited numbers, when the value of such weapons was imperfectly understood, and when American military planning was still under the influence of doctrines developed during the last great war. Of the 3,500,000 men under arms, almost two-thirds are in the Army and Navy, the traditional agencies of surface strategy. Yet, at the same time these forces were rushed into being, the Government also set in motion...
...later, the worst fate befell Bill Dean. In fact, he became the most famous American soldier ever to be taken prisoner, and his fame came in large part from the way in which he had conducted himself after his capture by North Korean Communists. Dean's fellow countrymen understood that the totalitarians fight for men's minds and use lies and torture to make prisoners cooperate with them. Dean became a new kind of hero, a symbol of the hundreds of Americans who, under fiendish pressure, had remained loyal to their country...
...rest are Southern primitives, who worship bulls, wear no clothes and hunt hippopotami in the swamps of the White Nile. There are Moslems and pagans, Dinkas, Bongos, Niam-Niams and Fuzzy-Wuzzies, but last week all confronted a new experience that most had never heard of and very few understood. The experience was democracy...
George Babbitt could never have talked that way. In fact, he would scarcely have understood what was the matter with Brown, anyway. In almost all his plays, O'Neill tried to dramatize the cause of Brown's despair. Brown's trouble, as O'Neill saw it, was "the sickness of today." The symptoms: love had given way to possessiveness; a sense of "belonging" had been crushed by the Machine Age; faith had become atrophied; the "old God was dead" and a new one was not in sight. With such a view...