Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most impressive of the witnesses was former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. "If you are not filled with foreboding, you don't understand your time," Gardner declared. He compared the leaders of the developed nations to "old men bickering in a collapsing house," ignoring "the root problems of this troubled world." Despite his reproachful words, Gardner received a standing ovation-just three weeks after the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach had given him a similarly warm reception...
...weapons, but our contempt is stronger than tanks," proclaimed one such station near Bratislava. The station suggested that its listeners "switch around street signs, take house numbers from the doors, remove nameplates from public buildings and, when a Soviet soldier asks you something, say that you don't understand Russian...
Education over Violence. Everywhere, Paul tried to sound a call to reconciliation and reform. He advised the new priests to "be able to understand men's concerns and to transform them. not into anger and violence, but into the powerful force of constructive work." At Mosquera, he told the campesinos: "We know how, in the great continent of Latin America, economic and social development has been unequal. It has passed over the multitude of the indigenous peoples, who have almost always been abandoned to an ignoble level of life...
...world finds it hard to understand why some powerful nation, particularly the U.S., cannot announce that it will send food to Biafra, and simply do it. In fact, the Administration has privately agonized over Biafra's suffering for a long time, but concluded that nothing short of military muscle would get supplies through, and it is certainly unwilling to risk that. An unauthorized airlift might endanger the lives of 5,000 Americans now living in federal Nigeria, and it would bring howls of outrage from most governments in Africa, which have served notice that they want to handle the Nigerian...
...male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except on the head. "Physical punishment," said one teacher from a California ghetto school, "is what these children understand best...