Word: understand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk to me about football on Rosh Hashana. You say you can't understand why our New Year is in the fall. It's all right for Harvard to start school in the fall. It's all right for Harvard to begin its football season in the fall. So, why can't we have Rosh Hashana in the fall...
...Rock and Roll High School makes it seem. Their songs are hymns to pure energy, and their movie ought to be more tightly-paced, faster-rhythmed. Rock and Roll High School smothers the Ramones with a thick glue-snort of T.V.-style jokes and befuddles any attempt to understand their spirit...
...other. After the fire, forbidden by a court ever to see the Butterfields again, David secretly begins tracking them down-in New York, then in Vermont. He is reunited with Jade. She is much changed, of course; it is part of Spencer's cunning to make the reader understand what an ordinary and vaguely disagreeable wom an she is becoming, and also know why David loves her so completely...
...talks broke down completely as Thieu, between tears of rage, accused the Americans of having "connived" to sell him out. "Obviously the negotiations could not continue without his agreement," writes Kissinger. Yet "turning on Thieu would be incompatible with our sacrifice, "he adds. Further, "we had to make Hanoi understand it would not be able to use our differences with Saigon to jockey us at the last moment into doing what we had refused for four years: overthrowing the political structure in South 'Viet Nam. "In any case, Kissinger goes on, "Thieu's reaction guaranteed that...
...this point Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke up. He thought the whole debate irrelevant. Either the sanctuaries were a danger or they were not. If it was worth cleaning them out, he did not understand all the pussyfooting about the American role or what we accomplished by attacking only one. Our task was to make Vietnamization succeed. He favored an attack on both Fishhook and Parrot's Beak, including American forces...