Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that the only viable government was the South Vietnamese Army. South Vietnamsee soldiers are hard to communicate with, unlike Westerners they never say anything in a straight-forward fashion but instead drop hints about their real feelings. Sloan says that he tried to get through to them, to understand what they really wanted, but that in retrospect they seemed not unlike "the docile Negroes in the South, the Uncle Toms who have been tricked into going along with the system...
...Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year than the year before, and worse the year before than the year before that." Asked a friend: "How are you doing now?" Sighed Henry: "I'm already playing next year's game...
...besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent his son to Andover so he could get into the college of his choice...
...generally do not inform Cambridge police about students from Harvard, Radcliffe, or M.I.T. caught shop-lifting. "These students receive preferential treatment from the Coop," Watson said. "The Coop feels that Harvard students are not criminals and we agree. They do not deserve prison sentences. Most of them do not understand the seriousness of the stealing...
...understand your concern about some recruiters and their methods. Training programs, too, have been open to criticism...