Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council Committee of Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom had a set of procedure as cumbersome as its name. By tying itself to other College groups without conclusively establishing its position within the Committee, the Council at once put itself at a disadvantage. The Council delegate never fully understood how far he could commit the Council with the other undergraduate groups. And no provision was made for coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges...
...days and two nights the talks went on, and at last the scouts understood. Explained Head Koshare Ronnie Lorenzo: "Always before we have taken something from the past to preserve for posterity. Now we have taken something alive. We must give it back...
After all, Pamela understood the value of suspense, and may have said "No!" for artistic as well as moral reasons...
...what he accomplished, but for the noise he made, Senator Joe McCarthy was the most discussed man of 1953. His name became an epithet to millions, a cheer to countless others. In 1953, McCarthyism crossed the twelve-mile limit and became an international word, widely understood around the world to mean a cynical exploitation of genuine fears, a studied contempt for fair play, a cunning talent for concealing failures by loudly baying after new victims. Too many abroad, urged on by a U.S. press that would leave no word of McCarthy unrecorded-no matter how outlandish-took him as their...
...Papa, he always understood...