Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think my kids rowed as well as they could row," MIT Coach Mayrene Earle said. "I'm excited about what Radcliffe crew can do. I understand that they weren't moving the boat as fast as they could have [because of injuries]. I'm looking forward to a good year for them...
...Affection without any ambivalence," rhapsodized Sigmund Freud, "a feeling of close relationship, of undeniably belonging together." He was speaking not of mothers or even of psychoanalysts but about Jo-fi, his pet dog. Americans understand. An estimated 52 million dogs reside in U.S. homes. Also 56 million cats, 45 million birds, 250 million fish and 125 million other assorted creatures. Yet despite the antiquity and ubiquity of the human-animal bond, neither Freud nor anyone else has shed much scientific light on the phenomenon. "Animals are so taken for granted," says Alan Beck, director of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Shamir government, reacting to pressure from Congress, announced that it would not sign new military sales contracts with South Africa, although existing commitments would be unaffected. But the impasse over the Pollard affair was far from over. Declared a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv: "The Israelis have to understand that Washington wants blood...
Gonna: Paul Newman, The Color of Money. Because he's never won before, and they figure they owe him, and it's like voting for Reagan: if you didn't do it, you couldn't understand...
Kent-Brown, who is the vice consul for media at the South African consulate, said yesterday afternoon he did not understand why students staged a protest against his visit. "They are simply going against their own constitution," he said. "I find it rather strange that they want to protest. I came to tell them my ideas and they will have ample opportunity to ask questions...