Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determination," he said, "was misused in the late '30s, and as a result of that concept, disaster was brought upon Europe, upon the world ... May I state: let never again that concept be misused, because we remember the late '30s and the result of that misuse." As his listeners understood, Begin was comparing the Palestinian claims to the West Bank with those of Nazi Germany on the Sudetenland, a predominantly German portion of Czechoslovakia, in the late 1930s?an analogy that was as undiplomatic as it was contrived...
...restoration was attempted as early as 1597 by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi, who grafted attached flaps of the patient's own skin and thus evaded the body's rejection mechanism more than three centuries before this phenomenon was scientifically understood. Such procedures were declared impious and were forbidden. More recent restoration efforts, using metal ear molds or dead cartilage, have produced poor results in many cases, although silicones have been employed successfully...
...required something from him. Thomas Scott Bell walked in the rain of a Cambridge winter day, unconcerned about an exam later that same day, listening to the Bells of the past but at the same time drawn on to his private Dreamland that was his alone, which they neither understood or could affect, from which his own voice told him he would leave soon, that it was not his time. Dreamland would wait...
...politics is the art of the possible, then statesmanship can sometimes be a genius for the impossible. Certain leaders over the centuries have understood the necessity of breaking free from old patterns of custom, expectation, even divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...
Besides, Satch and his ballclub had a perfect understanding with each other. Each understood that neither could communicate with the other. So it makes sense that one of Satch's initial tasks with the Celtics will be to restore communication between the coach and the players, a task for which he's as perfectly suited as a sportcoat from Robert Hall...