Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing troubled the Fulbright faction more than the prospect that the Administration might order a major increase in U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam without any consultations with Congress. "Do I understand you to be saying," Fulbright asked, "that you have no intention to consult with this committee and Congress, that you are going to do as you please?" Rusk said that the Administration would con sult with "appropriate" members of Congress about any important decisions concerning...
Gordon explained that he withdrew his gift out of fear that the protestors would harm his family or the building. B.U. President Arland F. Christ-Janer called Gordon's action "understand able." Taken by surprise, student leaders started a fund-raising drive to replace...
...Shaw students didn't say much, but they watched us closely. According to the myth, the white man can't understand the Negro, but the Negro, through long observation, knows every wrinkle of the white man's mind. No one at Shaw last summer--students or tutors--completely understood the tensions that were building, but it was the Shaw students who first gave them expression...
Many club members are pessimistic about the immediate outlook. "It's easy to understand why the Alumni won't give us any money," one said. "There's no guarantee we wouldn't end up in just the same place next year...
...Vietnam experience but also elsewhere, we stand back a few paces and re-examine how successfully applicable that strategy,born as I say, of gifted social science minds, techniques, technology, how really applicable it can be in these highly alien cultural, historic and geographic situations that we so barely understand...