Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cogny: "Well understood. You will fight to the end. It is out of the question to run up the white flag after your heroic resistance...
...National Committeeman Frank B. Ellis, leader of the successful pro-Stevenson forces in his state's savage 1952 campaign, entered the U.S. Senate primary race against Incumbent Allen Ellender. Making it clear that he would leave no vote unturned. Ellis said: "I wish it here and now distinctly understood that I have no quarrel with any Democrat who saw fit in his or her conscience to support General Eisenhower in the last election...
...misunderstood or publicly distrusted, for by its unpopularity it poisons the pond in which we all must fish." As U.S. industry has outgrown the proprietor-owned and operated companies of old, and as organized labor has gained in strength, more and more corporations have recognized the need for being understood by their employees, stockholders and the public at large. Yet the sad fact is that industry has lost ground in its public-relations campaign...
...early as 1905, Professor Sorokin was telling his truths to factory workers and villagers in his own Russian district. The son of an artisan, he understood the working class, and because of his talents as an orator and pamphleteer, he soon became a top leader in the Social Revolutionary Party...
...production of plays at Harvard is severely hampered by a lack of an adequate theater. How severe this lack is is not understood by most undergraduates or alumni because they, having been disenchanted by the trivial productions of Broadway and Hollywood, have little conception of the possibilities of good theatre for the moral heightening of awareness which all great art achieves. At Harvard there are many students and faculty members who have both talent and vision, and who lack the necessary facilities in order to make a most important and most pleasurable contribution to the life of the Harvard community...