Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informed public opinion ... I can't conceive of a better and finer occupation, really a vocation, rather than an avocation, for anyone who is employing others and dealing with others ... than to use his influence in making certain that [fiscal problems and the principles of frugality] are understood...
Freund supported the court's action primarily on the grounds that the possibility of two trials for a single offense has always been inherent in the Constitution. "A state trial after a Federal trial was always understood. If the minority had won, it would have been a departure from the past...
...indicated that the group wanted to buy or lease the property itself or the air rights over it, and said he understood that Long had returned to Philadelphia to consult with the prospective developers. At present Long is on a trip to New York and Philadelphia, it was reported last night...
...lazy Sunday afternoon, Castro laid wreaths on the monuments to Lincoln and Jefferson, noted that Jefferson "understood what revolutions should do." On NBC's Meet the Press, he sweated his way past a few sharp questions. (How soon elections? "Not more than four years. The people don't want elections.") Then he rushed off to the deserted Capitol for a two-hour session with Vice President Nixon. After another week, in New York, Canada and Houston, Castro will fly back to Havana, where he has always found Yankee-baiting the easy way to please the crowds...
...discoveries have three important results. First, since researchers now feel that all cases of cerebral palsy (malfunctioning of the human nervous system), are the result of harmful influences during the growth of the embryo, no cure can be effected till the normal process of growth is fully understood. Hicks' experiments have added greatly to this understanding...