Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year, Mikey," a retired amateur golfer yelled to Torrez, "You'll win it all for us." The man understood everything...
...religious dogmas--but for some inexplicable reason, the good folks at ORU saw fit to reject her. So she went to Creighton, met a lot of good people, began to learn about life and see God's place in it. Finally, one day she had a divine revelation and understood--Jesus had manipulated the admissions data to get her rejected from ORU so she could go to Creighton...
Freedom House, whose widely respected annual survey was used for our evaluations, defines freedom as it is understood in constitutionally democratic states. In judging political rights, it considers whether the leaders of a country are chosen in an open voting process, whether there are multiple political parties or at least a significant opposition, what share of the political power is exercised by elected representatives. In evaluating the civil liberties, it considers, among other things, whether there is a free press and an independent judiciary, whether censorship is applied in defense of a ruling party, to what degree the security forces...
...never understood, shrugs Carol Burnett, the success of her CBS variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might...
...very much enjoyed the article "New Debate over Jesus' Divinity" [Feb. 27]. It is not easy to do a story of this nature, and yet your magazine has succeeded in presenting very clearly a difficult subject in terms that are readily understood. I particularly appreciated the objective manner in which the article approaches this delicate area of Christian theology and living faith...