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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand why a Senator might vote for him. A Senator can't abstain from voting," said Dershowitz, who advised senators on how to defeat Bork. "But a citizen can abstain, and I think abstention may the proper course of action when a bad president names a mediocre nominee to an already bad court...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Tribe Is Pro-Kennedy In Senate Testimony | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...while Harvard has tried to teach me of worldly learning, instead I have come to a much different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in my heart the clocklike precision and sweeping grandeur of design that marks the natural world. The cerulean dome that arcs above our mortal heads remains, as ever, a mystery to my soul and mind...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: I Have My Pride | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...understand it, the new missile reduction treaty between the United States and the U.S.S.R. requires only the "demilitarization" of rockets. Once the warheads have been removed, American and Soviet leaders may do what they wish with the rockets themselves...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: 101 Uses for a Dead Missile | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...printing." Oh. But surely there are odd requests that break up the copy-shop monotony. "Sometimes people come in with Bibles." Is that illegal? "No, but I don't like to copy them. And some guy came in last week with a big, big textbook. I couldn't understand why he wanted it copied...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: Almost Quitting Time | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...FRIENDS, and perhaps they're not unusual among Harvard undergraduates, signed a petition dealing with an issue they did not understand. And the purpose of that petition was to prevent them from ever becoming informed of the various sides...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Looking Beyond the Union Label | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

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