Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that summer, I knew there was something very special going on here, and I knew I would have to get closer to really do anything about it," Monro said. "Then they asked me, 'Will you throw in with us?' and that was the decision. We all understood that it was going to be slow...
Ohlen Cox couldn't go to the burial. He watched it on TV because he was sitting with an ailing friend. Lyndon would have understood that, of course. He understood a lot of things. There was the time he had come home from Washington as Congressman Richard Kleberg's secretary. Lyndon came to Cox's garage and the two had a couple of drinks, and Lyndon said, "I'm learning a lot up there in Washington. I'm going to be up there myself some day." Ohlen Cox never doubted him. He knew Lyndon...
...difficult to recall the first semester the Class of 1973 spent at Harvard, though often it seems a lifetime ago. It was the fall after University Hall had been cleared in a bloody pre-dawn raid which most of us had read about, but few of us understood. Parents were having second thoughts about sending their sons and daughters to a hotbed of radicalism, Fair Harvard or not. I remember there was an electricity in the air that fall, a feeling such as most of us, particularly those like myself from America's far reaches, had never known before...
...with it. Nixonian Washington had so undermined the credibility of students and the Left by then that most Americans visualized only a bunch of crazed hippies roaming the streets of the Capitol. A handful of people, such as those who marched in the Civil Rights movement a decade ago, understood the frustration felt by Mayday protesters. I remember writing The Crimson's stories from Washington, typing sentences that told of outdoor detention centers and indiscriminate arrests, and asking myself, "This is America?" I really wondered...
...Unless he moved his head, he could see only half a page, half a word, half a letter. The ability to analyze was also gone. During a prolonged reschooling period, a simple statement like "An elephant is bigger than a fly" took hours of explaining before the relationship was understood. Grasping a basic geometry theorem meant up to two months of solitary "thinking," only to have the theorem forgotten days or even hours later...