Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharif-Emami closed gambling casinos and restricted other practices considered offensive by the Shi'ites. He also lifted a ban on the formation of political parties. Only the Communists remained outlawed. Said one of the mullahs at the time: "Our Prague spring cannot last long. But will the Shah understand that...
Through that living voice, living people begin to inhabit the stage: the scribes and Pharisees, hardened by suspicion and orthodoxy; the Disciples, stalwart but muddled; Jesus himself, patient and determined but often exasperated ("Perceive ye not yet, neither understand...
They were kicking around, this clone wehrmacht. Jesse Bolt has been playing Elvis for three or four years, and his girlfriend Rhyne was seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...
...Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning I was on a plane back to Washington, D.C., a city which, unlike Atlanta, remains undimmed...
...window is a Communist on the run from a police roundup ordered by a new fascist dictatorship. What happens after he climbs through the window is that love conquers the class barriers and she devises an elaborate stratagem to help him escape the country. Later, we are given to understand, she joins him and they both become martyrs to his cause after World War II begins...