Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baffling black holes of outer space, a phenomenon scientists would not have understood without the ideas on the nature of gravity, light, matter and energy propounded by Albert Einstein...
After fighting a draining and divisive war that many neither understood nor supported, Viet Nam veterans returned to the U.S. to face public neglect or, worse, characterization as criminals by antiwar protesters. Viet Nam veterans have higher rates of suicide, divorce and mental breakdown than the population at large. Many became drug addicts in Viet Nam, and unemployment among veterans has been high...
...remember who said it, but I understood that the University as an institution was no longer being requested to boycott a product," Wyatt said...
...seemed that our relation ship had just started. And now it was already ended." Rockefeller, continued Kissinger, was "full of the moment and yet always somehow marked by destiny. He often seemed remote because he was already living in the future, which most of us had not yet understood . . . His failure to reach the presidency was in my view a tragedy for the country, yet I never heard him express even one word of disappointment...
...difficult to explain--it is because of my whole life. It is because of our country, with the repressions and absence of intellectual and other freedoms, the hard conditions of our lives. [Speaking out] is a very great responsibility. In my work on the center of atomic warfare, I understood this great responsibility...