Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never before seen a campaign in which the candidate's agents shut out everybody else. In Illinois, Mayor Richard Daley had twice warned Carter that the campaign was going down the drain -unless he reached out more to the party regulars around the country. These professionals thought they understood the reasons for Carter's separation from the party. His campaign hallmark had been a dogged independence from the Establishment. He wanted to keep his appeal as an outsider who owed no one any favors...
...successful use of Cuban troops and Soviet arms against American and South African intervention in the Angolan civil war, have forced him to adapt his strategy to the changing realities of Southern Africa. It is in this context that Kissinger's current diplomatic initiative in Rhodesia must be understood...
...arena for this struggle was centered around Affirmative Action. "Affirmative Action," an often referred-to term, and rarely understood, became a common part of the vocabulary of many Harvard students and workers (and administrators, much to their own regret...
...term has infiltrated the language, carrying nuances not found in Fowler's Modern English Usage, shadings understood instinctively by Southerners but often baffling to armchair linguists beyond the Mason-Dixon line. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote this report on what is-and is not-a good...
...attempt to forestall federal efforts to integrate the South, whites used to argue that they "understood" blacks better than Northerners did. That rationalization was partly true because the fate of blacks and whites has been entwined since the start of slavery. Even when they were most at odds, they often lived in close proximity and fraternized casually. Once the barriers of segregation came down, it became apparent that whites and blacks had more in common in the South than they did in the North. "There was an understanding between the two peoples," says Terry Sanford, president of Duke University. "Human...