Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step in grasping the reaction of the majority of Americans to lawlessness is to understand that the only thing that makes our Government work is the recognition by the individual of the obligation to accept the majority opinion once lawfully stated, no matter which side he may have taken in' the debating stage. In equating our colony's revolt against King George with the current radicals' attacks on our established democratic forms, you seem to understand this as poorly as the rioters...
...were born to, a white world of upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...death penalty in their state. Mrs. Ehrmann, a cheerful woman of 73 who has worked for 40 years in this cause, is hopeful of the November out come. She has been supported all along by the conviction, which amounts to a Doer's principle, that "if people understand and are properly dealt with, they will follow an intelligent and humane course...
...Welfare Rights Organization, which developed from her own similar organization in Los Angeles. "Part of our work," she says, "is giving welfare recipients the self-confidence to stand up to the county social workers as equals instead of doing whatever they say, like dogs. We make sure our members understand the welfare laws and know what's coming to them " When that is not enough, the group sues the county -and has successfully forced it to heed its own welfare rules in case after case...
...hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...