Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Beatles. It is impossible to understand the musical and artistic development of the Beatles except by considering their singles from year to year. To list only some of their most extravagant feats the musical career of the Beatles proceeds through "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Can't Buy Me Love" to "We Can Work It Out" up to the pivotal "Strawberry Fields" and then through "A Day in the Life" and "I Am the Walrus" to, most recently, "Hey Jude...
...Norman Mailer's General Cummings said in The Naked and the Dead, Americans beginning the last third of the century are bearing their full load. "Uncertainty is the way it is now," says Joshua Golden, assistant professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. "People can be comforted if they understand that it's a normal occurrence...
...foreign countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value. It is too easy for self-righteous Americans to condemn this behavior. Anybody who has not seen his own fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations cannot fully understand the miser mentality of many Frenchmen and other Europeans...
...write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
...Earle certainly wasn't one of the chief Meanies. Before the show he had given us all the tips on winning form he had gleaned from his years of emceeing after he replaced Allen Ludden. Mr. Earle hadn't been able to understand why we didn't seem to care very much about winning, and why everyone was laughing at all the wrong times. But it didn't really matter. The System took care of everything. The System made even James K. (for King) "Jimmy" Glassman want to hit the buzzer and get to say "Richard Nixon" on national teevee...