Word: understood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When asked whether the concept of the end of the universe could be understood intuitively, Field said "the theory is logically absurd," adding that even mathematics cannot yet account satisfactorily for the beginning and end of time...
...what we always though he was best-suited for in life--an insurance agent, or maybe a successful ad account executive for someone like J. Walter Thompson as so many of his assistants were, pushing Colgate and Pringles and J-Wax Kit. That was perhaps the one thing Nixon understood, at least after 1962--that what counted was to sell yourself, to make yourself appear sincere so that it didn't matter what you said or did. Only under tremendous pressure did the mind beneath show through, the kind of pressure that mounted in the summer...
...over each point in his message with Energy Aide James Schlesinger (TIME cover, April 4) and a handful of key staffers. Rosalynn stopped by to eye the text. "If I can understand it, everybody can," she explained later. "We changed a word here and there to be more easily understood." At 12:45 a.m., a weary President went off to work on the speech for another hour before going to bed. Schlesinger and his small staff retreated to their offices, where the staff worked all night putting the finishing touches on the address and the Administration's proposed legislation...
...PONDERED the shadows cast by the milling crowd on the cement floor of the Springfield Civic Center, a tap on the shoulder and a low voice accosted me. I had not understood at first, but the voice was saying, "Any 'cid?" Not having been at a Grateful Dead concert for some time, I was baffled. "What?", I asked. "Trips--you know, LSD," replied my prospective customer. (And I never thought I looked like the type.) "No. Sorry," I said, but he had already moved...
...even naively about his proposals and aspirations, reaching out always to his public as if he were onstage. His faith in himself has been renewed in church and prayer each week. But as yet there is a singular detachment from the act of governing as it has been understood in the past. In truth, Carter's inexperience may be so great that he has very little notion of what he has done or failed...