Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOTHS. That night we made our way over to Dupont Circle. As we walked down Massachusetts Avenue, we tried to understand why we were going. No logic figured here. Intellectually, we would reject the entire rationale for joining that sort of demonstration-and there were persuasive reasons not to join it. Why were we going...
...long silence? "If you give an interview to one magazine," he explains in the current issue of Rolling Stone, "then another one'll get mad. People don't understand that the press, they just use you to sell papers. And, in a certain way, that's not bad, but when they misquote you all the time, and when they just use you to fill in some story, it hurts because you think you were just played for a fool...
...cheerleaders were great. They even rhymed-Kathy, Sharon. Alice, and Karen. They're all in the same sorority. Kathy told me about her school's SDS chapter, which is trying to kick fraternities, sororities, and football off campus. She couldn't understand why SDS wouldn't let other people do what they want. I'll take a cheerleader over a radical any day: for one thing. "Hold that line!" is always much better synchronized than...
According to the statement's last paragraph, the reason for publicizing the University policy was "so that each member of the community will understand its importance and their individual responsibility to contribute toward its maximum fulfillment...
...much as I appreciated it Saturday, when I saw how much we could enjoy losing. Winning can be equally exciting, but it's boring in large quantities. I can sort of see them shaking their heads now at UCLA, Alabama, Michigan State, and other basics. They just wouldn't understand such irrational thoughts...