Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...realize, of course, that you may Well succeed in winning the election for Kennedy, but I would like you to know that the game is understood...
Climatically, historically and emotionally, the Congo is many lands. Even when the Congo's radios and telephones were working again, orders from Leopoldville would scarcely be heard, understood or heeded by the equatorial Logo craftsman, the fiercely independent Lokele fisherman or the Balamba villager of Katanga. Scattered through a land roughly the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi, the Congo's 150 major tribes speak 38 different languages, observe a bewildering variety of rites ranging from lip tattooing to magic rain making...
...students from all 50 states and the world. President-elect Car roll, who thinks that George Washington "would be well advised to elevate its admission standards," has more plans that "will mean an awful lot of work for everyone." His model is Harvard, and he wants it to be understood that "Washington is not Oshkosh...
...glossolalia going again in his new post, a small missionary church, but he "mentions" it privately to people he thinks could benefit. "The gift of tongues is a freeing of the personality in expressing one's self more profoundly, particularly toward God, even though the symbols are not understood by the speaker. It does not happen in a trance. The person is releasing something deeper than the ordinary symbols of language...
...some adolescent reason that The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield would have understood, Clint Williams ponders suicide. "Of course, if I end up in some lousy place like Hell," he reflects in his diary, "it would be a miserable mistake. The thing I am gambling on is that after death people become automatically ghosts, and possess thereby complete freedom of movement. ADVANTAGES: I could follow Berry-berry around from place to place...