Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief counsel for the Panthers, Garry, who is white, had represented Scale previously. "If Hoffman knew anything about the Panthers," says Professor Harry Kalvin Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, "he would have understood that Garry is the only lawyer that Scale trusts, and therefore that his request for a postponement was not just a stunt to delay the trial." In Garry's absence, adds Professor Abraham Goldstein of Yale Law School, Hoffman should have allowed Scale to act as his own counsel and to personally cross-examine witnesses...
...thumbs again. One car whizzed by and stopped to pick up a soldier in uniform who was standing down the road. We ran down to join the party, but the soldier closed the car door quickly behind him, and the car whizzed on. Adam was angry, but I understood perfectly. After all, what had we done for our country...
...dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
...digit away from the winning number in a $28,000 lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced to 30 years in jail, Biggs escaped in 1965. The last thing he wanted in his Australian...
...power was actually used in a variety of crises from the 1933 bank holiday to the Cuban missile showdown. Despite the old American distrust of all power, he believes that our current social ills are eliciting new assertions of power, and that its nature should therefore be better understood. His own attack on it is as systematic and undaunted as any book since Machiavelli's The Prince...