Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understood that evening the strain of pessimism in Angell's thinking about the future of baseball. That strain culminates in a brilliant, nightmarish vision toward the end of Five Seasons...
...some cases, the compilation of cash can only be understood as an intellectual challenge. Take rich Rich Dennis, 28, who is unmarried, lives with his parents in a modest Southside Chicago bungalow and is one of the world's smartest commodity traders. He has made close to $10 million. If you want to get rich, he advises, "you can't have the usual attitude toward money. If you think of every dollar you lose on the commodities market as a bucket of coal you'll have to shovel some day, then you're bound...
Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
...when Paco's friend gave him the cartoon from the slick girlie mag, he thought it was funny and hung it up next to the eagle and laughed at it al the while never understanding the message. His roommates understood, even the sadistic chem major. They called Paco "Super-Mex" and offered to make him an honorary gringo, and they even bought him the black leather briefcase for his birthday...
...flashes of temper, he lived an abundant life and made his strikingly craggy face familiar around the boulevards. He also continued to write and yearn for literary immortality. Even when he did gripe about reviewers, one could wonder whether he really cared what they were saying-or even quite understood. "They just said I was a bad writer, bad grammar, blah, blah, blah," he told one interviewer. It was as if the fine points of writing did not matter that much to his work. And perhaps they did not, any more than the fine points of draftsmanship mattered to Grandma...