Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They both looked at each other in quiet amazement. She looked at the floor and understood she had been caught again...
...draft law is too complex to be properly understood by the registrant or to be properly administered by the local draft boards. Therefore, the lawyers concluded, "a significant proportion of the draftees presently serving in Viet Nam do so under induction orders which were unlawfully issued...
...latest novel defines the type perfectly. She has small patience, too, with intellectuals who find her work too full of social and economic themes. "The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward," she says. "Intellectuals have forgotten, or else they never understood, how difficult it is to make one's way up from a low economic level, to assert one's will in a great crude way. It's so difficult. You have to go through it. You have to be poor...
Ptashne outlined to the crowd of about 100 what he understood to be the basic strategy of the Faculty meeting. "It firstseemed logical that they would either let the Mendelsohn motion through since it was so weak and then recess or else recess immediately," he said. "Instead they amended Mendelsohn's motion so that it was apolitical...
...Because that amendment passed we thought we were lost," Ptashne said. But at 5:45 p.m., when Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, moved for a 15-minute recess, "no one understood the strategy." By 6 p.m. at a Faculty meeting, Ptashne said, no one is really concentrating- "you have to keep mainlining dexedrine to keep awake...