Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began by flexing Russia's muscles. He had noticed that in the streets there were "a few, a very few, placards against us and a few cries. One man even shook his fist at me. My return gesture was this [Khrushchev shook his own fist], and we both understood each other...
...understood that failure to sustain the program through next year would mean almost certain loss of the University's waiver of tuition for the scholar. This possibility of tied-up funds aroused some opposition...
...picked him to pacify the Ukraine, then in ferment as a result of Stalin's brutal collectivization of the rich farm lands. What made Khrushchev the right man for the job was that he was a peasant and could be expected to handle the peasants in terms they understood...
...about the needs of the other services. In 1943, the Government set up an Army-Navy staff college to help the two services understand each other better. In 1943-45, Washington brass began to think it might be a good idea if the services and the State Department also understood each other better. In 1946 they set up the present National War College (named by then Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower), "concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the natural resources necessary to implement that strategy, [whose] graduates will exercise a great influence on . . . national and foreign...
...said then that over $50,000 had been pledged. His last report given to the CRIMSON two weeks ago is that pledges are "coming in very slowly." University officials have indicated that they are trying to obtain one large donor, rather than conduct an all-out campaign. It is understood that in the last year, one prospective donor withdrew his offer at the last minute...