Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround the department, in Reddin's words, with a "blue curtain of secrecy...
...Assembly. Unwittingly, Pompidou hastened his own exit by engineering an election landslide. After the first round of voting indicated that the Gaullists would win handsomely, the general sounded out Pompidou about his future plans. Pompidou played into De Gaulle's design by confessing his extreme exhaustion and his understand able desire to take a long vacation...
...election also brought out Japan's considerable strain of pragmatism. Japanese voters have an abiding admiration for Ho Chi Minh's holdout against U.S. attack, but they can also understand why the U.S. cannot return Okinawa, with its B-52 landing bases, so long as the war continues-and the electorate decided not to make an issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates...
...berated her fellow reviewers for considering Hud a bad sort. To make the point that he was pretty typical, she compared him to her own father, who, she said, also rebelled against authority and committed adultery, yet remained pleasantly "democratic in the Western way that Easterners still don't understand...
...This week," said Miss Singer, "there have been 10 to 15 installations per day, and I understand even more were installed Thursday--perhaps 20 or 25. There may even be some phones I don't know about," she added...