Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society that is fascinated with the power of personality. The Chinese are a society fascinated with the power of a political system, and they do not seem to understand the deep yearning of Westerners to put faces on the facts and statistics. There is no scholarly discourse on the roots of the two-line struggle, for instance; instead, Schell quotes workers, who described to him how the struggle and its resolution affected their lives. It makes the picture somehow more complete than either a simple first-person narrative or an academic work could be, because Schell has tried, generally with...
...Indochina presented an entirely new set of challenges to the American army. Trained in the conventional tactics of warfare, the American strategists could not understand the methods of an opposing army that was supported by and mingled with the civilian population of South Vietnam; their response to the frustration of being unable to locate enemy soldiers was large-scale destruction of the countryside...
...think it is important for our students to understand about repayment, but it has increased our work load by about 3000 students," Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, said Monday...
...Nixon administration, and various other highlights of his career. Applying the same aggressive legwork that the distinguished him from most other television journalists, Schorr interviewed nearly all the characters who played a prominent role in "the story." These interviews revealed information previously unknown to Schorr, helping him better understand why certain decisions were made and certain events occurred...
From that moment unti his appearance before the Ethics Committee in September, Schorr was in limbo. He became a cause celebre, a defender of free speech to some, a Benedict Arnold to others. He describes that period as "unreal." He said he could not understand what he "was doing on the other side of the microphone." After devoting an entire life to reporting, to asking the questions, now he had to answer them...