Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must try to understand the heart of America, and how to translate that heart to other peoples . . . You cannot be leaders unless you understand each other and help nations understand each other. The scope of the understanding you must achieve far transcends what your illustrious commandant and I understood when we were waiting on the plain at West Point 40 or more years ago, receiving our diplomas...
...Congress is a complex and subtle organization, but sometimes its changing character and mood can be understood through a single individual. The First Congress, determined to keep alive a newborn nation by profiting from the mistakes of past civilizations, listened respectfully to cautionary historical precedents presented by scholarly James Madison. The 25th Congress, struggling to maintain unity in a divided nation, listened fearfully as John C. Calhoun mobilized the minority to arrest the will of the majority. The 39th Congress, filled with anger as it viewed the ashes of civil war, followed the vengeful leadership of Thaddeus Stevens...
Much of the program will be a venture into untested fields. "In the past, little has been known about the underlying principles of controls," Merrick explained. "But enough is now understood to enable us to train students in the field, although the subjects to be studied in some of the courses may have no texts to go by," he concluded...
Goldman complained that yesterday's Glee Club decision had elimination "one of the major features of the Weekend, one we had been advertising prominently." He said he understood fear that the concert would be unprofitable was the Glee Club's reason for cancellation...
...Stalinist-type public confession of guilt by Kao, they were defeated by an old Chinese custom. Like many a great imperial mandarin before him, Kao took the proverbial way out of his situation: he committed suicide. Thus Kao Kang, said the communique, showing that the Chinese Communists fully understood his protest, "expressed his ultimate betrayal of the party...