Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it was easy for the young people, but they were grown up enough to understand in," Sears said...
...When leaders do not understand the problems, the people will come to solutions," she said...
...year-old Desiree, a recent immigrant from Haiti, when she finally comprehended the term. Native English speakers take the words "broom," "sweep," "dishes" and "hammer" for granted. These brand new vocabulary words and phrases will be of critical importance to newly arrived low-income Americans, as they struggle to understand help-wanted advertisements, American shopping malls and even soap operas...
Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, said at her roundtable discussion that women in political office are often subjected to scrutiny on trivial matters...
...thirtieth anniversary, does anyone still care about the student takeover of University Hall? The students who occupied the headquarters of the Harvard administration a generation ago were fighting for causes we can barely understand now. They lived not in the apathetic environment of today's college campuses but in a political climate dominated by the shadow of a war that ended before we were born. They subscribed to political philosophies we now tend to dismiss as anachronistic, or as mere curiosities...