Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back seat of any car, I can't find clothes to fit, and shaving mirrors always seem to be fixed at the level of my belt. It's a plot to keep us unclad and bedraggled." For the life of him, Doerner can't understand why Nader doesn't do something about it. After all, he himself...
...floor to denounce political blundering by the Treasury and, implicitly, by the White House. "The Treasury," he said, "has gone down to a resounding and, I suppose, glorious defeat. I do hope that my Administration will listen the next time we try to advise them that legislatively we understand more about tactics and strategy than they...
...Viet Cong out of populated villages without having to obtain cooperation from province and district chiefs -although the massacre at My Lai raises questions about whether the restrictions are, in fact, tight enough. Officers contend that too many of the most prominent critics of the war simply do not understand Viet Nam or the nature of the fighting there. If the military gets around to publicly pinpointing scapegoats, it will undoubtedly cite the U.S. press. There is a widespread conviction in the armed forces that reporters have fed antiwar sentiment at home by sensationalizing the war's bloodier aspects...
...foremost child psychologists. Few researchers have so meticulously or provocatively mapped that terra incognita, the mental world of children. For 50 years, Piaget, now 73, has been discovering through deceptively simple experiments that children actually have surprisingly intricate thinking skills that adults should learn to appreciate and understand better than they...
...reached Friday after a six-hour work stoppage by black people demonstrates again that white institutions seem unable to respond to the needs of black people unless they are threatened," said an OBU press statement released Monday. "And it should teach a lesson to those who say they cannot understand the tactics of black people...