Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced, Gray forfeited, accepting an offer to become president of the University of Chicago. Dean Rosovsky, heavily involved in plotting reforms of Harvard's undergraduate education, was offered the office in Woodbridge Hall. Rosovsky turned the other cheek, but being the silent type that he is, nobody ever really understood...
After the nightmare of World War II, we need to go beyond making obvious moral judgments of human beings in history. Unfortunately, James MacGregor Burns's book doesn't change the fact that "leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." The mystery remains...
Lenz said his method is a different, higher form of meditation than Transcendental Meditation. "If the teachers of T.M. really understood meditation they would not charge money," he added...
...Texas, where the President is especially unpopular because of his natural gas bill, Rosalynn made some campaign stops over Labor Day weekend, the first of several appearances scheduled for the First Lady this fall. Cool, poised and unflappable in the wilting Texas heat, she explained that the White House understood why local candidates had to take stands that appealed to their constituents. There were no hard feelings, she insisted, back in Washington...
...appropriate moves in case he should change his mind. Kennedy is making sure he stays in the public eye. While attending a health conference in Russia, he met with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and urged him to take steps to improve relations with the U.S. As Kennedy understood it, the Soviet boss agreed to review the cases of 18 families who have been refused permission to emigrate. Later, the Senator met with a group of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and the mother and brother of Anatoli Shcharansky, who has been sentenced to prison for his protests...