Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the changes were not without opposition in the Faculty meeting, it is understood that they passed by a substantial majority. Elder had presented the same changes at the last meeting, but it was necessary for him to make slight changes of phrasing for the plan to win approval...
...only want to singe him a little. When they're punished in an adult, unknowing way, they reciprocate. But most of the provocation comes from adults." In an age that regards delinquents as more sinned against than sinning, Dirks's mixed-up Kids have never been better understood...
...rose garden last week for their public leavetaking, Dwight Eisenhower and Saudi Arabia's King Saud exchanged a double handclasp that signified to all the world a diplomatic achievement of first importance. As the delegated eyes and ears of the combustible Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians, Saud now thoroughly understood-if he could not yet publicly embrace-the Eisenhower doctrine. The talks, as President Eisenhower told his press conference, had cleared away much of "the underbrush of misunderstanding"; now the seeds could be planted, and clearly Saud would be a valued planter of U.S. offers of friendship and protection among...
...never completed. At Santa Monica, tower operators heard Copilot Archie Twitchell's shocked voice exclaim from the DC-7B: "Midair collision! Midair collision!" Through a burst of radio interference came his agonized report: "We're going down! Uncontrollable! Uncontrollable!" After 34 years, Old-timer Twitchell understood the odds. His last message, clear and calm: "Say goodbye to everybody...
True patriots all; for be it understood...