Word: understood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nodding enthusiastically): You have truly understood...
Many voters in the primaries understood Carter to be fairly conservative; yet at the New York convention, he chose a deeply liberal running mate, Mondale, and virtually dictated many parts of a party platform considerably to the left of the Carter image...
...already at the danger point, and if a Democratic Congress is unleashed by a Democratic President, there will be a disaster. So does Nancy Brataas, a Rochester, Minn., housewife who started her own small firm for consultation on political volunteer programs. Lawyer Francis Love of Wheeling, W. Va., understood the need for massive Government action in the 1930s, but now he believes there is an equally compelling need for massive revision of the New Deal concept and programs that still dominate Washington...
...than a hundred homes on the Izu Peninsula 80 miles south of Tokyo. Scientists said the close sequence of quakes was probably coincidental, though they admit the rash of recent earthquakes in the Far East is disturbing and may suggest that some seismic process that is not yet fully understood may be taking place...
...irony or existential razzmatazz.They will not find it in The Easter Parade. Yates does not condescend to his heroines; he refuses to strike attitudes about their failures or mock their limitations. "I'm almost 50 years old," Emily says at the end, "and I've never understood anything in my whole life...