Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depressive whose chest-heaving and temple-pounding came as natural results. His death, the cause of which is unclear in the libretto, was almost surely due to a cerebral hemorrhage. "Of course I didn't try to make a case history out of him," says Hines. "Once I understood the motivations,! forgot about it and sang the part...
...about who killed Pisciotta. The fascist and Communist press did their best to put it on newly appointed Premier Scelba's administration, but had no evidence to go on. Others whispered the dread and legendary name of Mafia. But in Sicily, where the ways of bandits are better understood, the people cared little for such sophisticated argument. For Sicilians, it was enough that an informer had been killed...
...auctioneer began by offering Farouk's mountain of stamps, one of the most important collections ever sold publicly. Sixty expert philatelists from all over the world bid briskly with a jerk of the thumb, a murmur in any of half a dozen languages, which the auctioneer swiftly understood. Said the buyer for America's Gimbels department-store chain: "The early part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell...
...Education could publish lists of requirements, stating exactly what material must be known to secure an exemption. Such lists would not encourage cramming, for the essay questions on the examinations could be framed so that mere factual knowledge would make little difference if whole areas and concepts were not understood...
...housing, another 65,000 schoolrooms, stone-clearing projects in Sardinia and reforestation in the mountain districts, cheaper loans for farmers, wage boosts for workers, better tax enforcement. These measures reflected his leanings to the liberal wing of his Christian Democratic Party. But he also wanted his anti-Communism fully understood: he would take steps against the massive Communist propaganda machinery, which "poisons the public spirit every day with lies and distortions." He would see that Italy "firmly pursues a policy of solidarity with Western nations...