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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Canadians understand that the rupture of their country would be a crime against the history of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...This year is highlighted by the fabulous give-and-go strategy of the first-string Christmas shoppers. Also, I have followed religiously your see-saw struggle with the Irishman in that no-talk game. I don't fully understand the rules there. Is the object to talk to yourself the most or is it just not to talk...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Snoway to Go: This Was the Week That Wasn't | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...committee hopes to find someone with experience in administration as well as law enforcement, Wyatt said. He added university experience is not an essential requirement but the candidate would have to "at least understand" the problems of a university police force

Author: By Andrew S. Davidson, | Title: Search Committee May Pick Police Chief Soon | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...this work is jeopardized if the intelligence community is unreasonably weakened by public attacks. Policymakers and intelligence officials abroad are especially worried that outside pressures could all but incapacitate the CIA. They fear that Americans are too susceptible to periodic bouts of moral outrage, that they fail to understand their cherished democratic freedoms must be protected from a world that in large part does not cherish them. Appearing on the David Susskind Show in January, Jack Fishman, a British expert on intelligence, said he was "appalled by the way the American public is falling into the trap of slandering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...understand immediately. Several hundred films have used ground fog rising off fields and the dark figures of waiting men to give the same contrast between soft landscape and hard purpose. A duel is to be fought. The swordplayers level rapiers, hold, touch blades in saute, fight. One falls, too badly wounded to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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