Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote kept seesawing; it was the first time I had read precincts with professional politicians: and these professional politicians understood the game. It was downstate (Republican) versus Cook County (Democratic). and the bosses, holding back totals from key precincts, were playing out their concealed cards as in a giant game of blackjack. There was nothing anyone could do in Hyannisport except hope that Boss Daley of Chicago could do it for them. Daley was a master at this kind of election-night blackjack game. So were the men I was with in the back room-all of them tense until...
...existed. The knights of his round table were able, tough, ambitious men, capable of kindness, also capable of error. Of them all, Kennedy was the toughest, the most intelligent, the most attractive-and inside, the least romantic. He was a realistic dealer in men, a master of games who understood the importance of ideas. He advanced the cause of America, at home and abroad. But he also posed for the first time the great question of the '60s and '70s: What kind of people are we Americans? What do we want to become...
...late in the afternoon, and he was dressed in an old West Point bathrobe of blue and gray wool which displayed the Army "A" on its back; occasionally he puffed on a corncob pipe. We rejoiced together that we alone understood the Japanese peril to America; in this sympathetic mood, he began to reminisce. He had been a young first lieutenant when he came here after graduation from West Point in 1903; he had fought the little Philippine brown brothers in the Aguinaldo insurrection. He had commanded a U.S. division in combat in World War I; had been Chief...
...jump in real estate prices. For some correspondents, the statistics were academic and provoked only a mild incredulity. But for Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers and Correspondent Joe Kane, the figures were a grim reality: as recent initiates to the California housing scene, they shared the experience and understood the bristling anger of many of the residents they interviewed...
...case became an encapsulation of the nationwide abortion debate. Some attempted to make a martyr of Edelin, who is black. Others supported his accusers, who were, as it turned out, only public prosecutors doing what they considered a distasteful job. Few understood the controversy or viewed the personalities with objectivity. Dr. William Nolen, the Litchfield, Minn., surgeon who first won a national following with his 1970 book The Making of a Surgeon, was one of those...