Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a university freshman who can't understand President Johnson's reasoning. What kind of joke is this war? A war where you don't bomb the enemy's capital but they take over our embassy in downtown Saigon? A war where you don't bomb the enemy's only supply harbor is idiotic...
...alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen starts to be aired, says Miami Judge Lawrence King, "I just click my mind off and don't even listen to their arguments." Agrees his local colleague, Judge Lee: "I try to make them understand that there is no reason to try to convince me of what an S.O.B. their mate is. How bad the man may have been has absolutely nothing to do with the money allocation...
...Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...
...When something is wrong in a story," Miss Donadio says, "and the writer doesn't see it or doesn't know it-there is something in the writer's life he doesn't understand. A young writer will call me and say how depressed he is and how dark and awful life is. Well, life isn't dark and awful, and I'll break my back showing them that...
...understand this period of life and the stresses that go with it, we have to understand it is a developmental period, and we have to look carefully at our cultural institutions. We must run like hell to stay in the same place. What is gained from adolescence, as we said in the beginning, is of enough importance for the adolescent to make the inherent stresses worthwhile, which does not mean that we set out with any motive but to increase communication and dialgoue. We can't make the stresses of adolescence go away, but we can understand them...