Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House and Government. Carter shed some more of that evangelical sheen, orchestrating millions of dollars for a few votes, just like an oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote...
...Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia: "I've been in the mines all my life, so I understand the people. I'm one of them...
...jobs to its domestic employment rolls, which is particularly pleasing to the chairman, who was unemployed for a year during the Depression 1930s. Says Murphy, in the flat tones of Chicago, where he grew up: "When I see the magnitude of our spending, I can't understand why the national figures for capital investment don't show more of an upward tilt...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY America. A time of prosperity, when the Horatio Alger myth is still alive, if somewhat decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep...
...easy to understand Finch's appeal to the poor: He tells them what they want to hear. Mississippians are, on the average, so poor, and so tired of being reminded of it that they will listen to anyone who will tell them differently or promise to change it. Combined with this is an extremely low level of education, and when a campaign as slick as was Finch's (again, one can only wonder where the money came from) hit them, it was natural to fall...