Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lexicon relaxing tension means lulling the non-Communist forces to sleep while the Communists build up their strength. Some of the delegates at Bandung understood that meaning and heard Chou's proposal in that perspective, but others were lulled. From the U.S. Government, the reaction was swift and clear and firm...
Thousands of other tributes poured in, but words could not convey the feelings of a world in which the many unquestioningly accepted Einstein's genius while only the few-and they, of scientific training-adequately understood what he had contributed to knowledge. In person, Albert Einstein was diffident, almost childlike. As a man of scientific thought, he strode boldly with history's handful: Pythagoras and Archimedes, Copernicus and Newton...
Only a handful of scientists understood what it was all about. The nonscientist simply took the handful's word on faith. It took him 40 years to see the proof that E = mc² means that an ounce of matter-sand, oxygen, uranium-holds within itself as much energy as that given off by the explosion of 875,000 tons of TNT. But in the flash of Hiroshima...
...When he passed the Leyden Congregational Church, Hamamura was in front. At Coolidge Corner, the last check point, he was right up with the course record set by his countryman, Keizo Yamada, in 1953. "Record, y'understan'? Record!" screamed a reporter from the press bus. Hamamura, who understood not a word, grinned back, a gold tooth glinting through the mist...
ALMOST nothing is known of Hieronymus Bosch beyond the facts that he lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605 a Spanish monk wrote that "Bosch alone has the courage to depict the inner and the essential . . . His paintings are not farces but like books of great wisdom." Today Bosch is called the "father of surrealism" and admired chiefly as a convincing fantasist...