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Word: understand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving into more high school organizing. When high school kids see meetings with Marines, radicals, and commies (that's us) that all agree on the war, they understand that there's something wrong with their analysis...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obituary | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

...jungle lies death for a cause that many black soldiers don't understand or dismiss as white man's folly. "Why should I come over here when some of the South Vietnamese live better than my people in 'the world'? " asks a black Marine. "We have enough problems fighting white people back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BLACK POWER IN VIET NAM | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...death in 1632 at the battle of Lützen, he was a growing threat to France. The passionate Gustavus, as O'Connell observes, was unable to tell the difference between religion and politics; and the cerebral Richelieu, who was accustomed to making the distinction, failed to understand that trait in Gustavus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cardinal's Virtues | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...FALL MOVIES: A crash course in movies to help you understand the season's schedule. Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN TODAY'S CRIMSON | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...Excuse me, I see that the engaging flow, such as it is, of this narrative- cum -expose has been interrupted. The "shee-it" is the voice of my freshman roommate, First you must understand that "freshman roommate" is itself a perjorative term-a curious phenomenon given the fact that, not only did most of us have one, most of us were one. Mine happened to be from Mississippi. ("No, white, " I would explain, with the appropriate tone of annoyance to my outraged relatives.) What was a nice boy from Boston doing with a roommate like that? The fault...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Year of the Freshman: an annual social event thrown for 1200 selected students, with lifelong repercussions | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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