Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...item definitely not exportable is The Punch Revue, a collection of dry skits and songs which should leave even the most devout Anglophile gasping for more vermouth. The fraction of the show I understood was very funny, and Miss Binnie Hale's impressions of other actresses broke through the language barrier. With filmy dress and yellow sausage wig, Miss Hale succeeds in making even Marlene a little ludicrous...
...hypertension area, too, diet is hotly debated. "No salt!" cry many doctors, although the link between salt and blood pressure is not fully understood. Many doctors believe that salt content must drop to an infinitesimal one-tenth of a teaspoonful per day. This can be achieved only by an extreme regimen like the famed "rice diet." But even on this, says Dr. Page, a mere 25% of the patients get their blood pressure down to near-normal levels. So: "Whether one wishes the psychic mortification of the rice diet or the dubious gratification of a planned low-salt diet...
President Eisenhower's greatest assets are, as you stated, that he is liked and understood. This is, of course, a result of his complete sincerity and integrity, which cannot help being recognized. Surely he has proven that these basic qualities have done more for the U.S. in less than three years of his Administration than 20 years of the partisan politics of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman could accomplish. Therefore it is imperative that his policies continue to be carried out by a Republican President...
...that morality and foreign policy do not mix. That never has been, is not, and I pray never will be, the American ideal. Diplomacy which is divorced from morality also divorces the Government from the people. Our people can understand, and will support, policies which can be explained and understood in moral terms. But policies based on carefully calculated expediency could never be explained...
...subject to parliamentary debate. In many other states, the proposed new boundaries will fall short of perfectly sorting out language groups, thus emphasizing India's need for one unifying national language. Hindi (related to Urdu and Sanskrit in the Hindustani group) is spoken by 40% of Indians and understood by many more, but it is little known in South India, and, like all native Indian languages, lacks the precision and flexibilities needed in the law and the sciences. The British, first unifiers of India since the 3rd century B.C., gave their language to educated Indians, but more and more...