Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trick was in his silence, since he understood how valuable that is to someone who had nothing much to say anyway...
Peter A. Biagetti '78, spokesman for the 37 students in Canaday D-entry, said yesterday the tentative plan to crowd juniors into the living rooms of each suite violates an understood agreement with Heimert and the House administration...
Richard Nixon, who claimed he understood that a President gave himself totally to his country ("like taking religious vows," he once insisted), schemed to create a secret White House beyond public knowledge. Ironically, when the fortress collapsed, it turned out that Nixon had documented his private utterances better than any other President, and the public dissection of Nixon that is now under way is the most painfully detailed scrutiny of any President, but also one of the most instructive...
...Observatory housed another astronomy, not so long ago. An astronomy humanistically understood, an observation of a sky full of myth and poetry. Astrophysics is a specialized science, the exclusive province of a professional elite...
Sticking Plates. As the two plates grind past each other, friction causes them to stick together briefly at some places. Then, driven by powerful and little-understood forces deep within the earth, they tear apart to resume their journeys, causing minor to moderate tremors. But in the Palmdale region, they have apparently been firmly locked for more than a century, while adjoining parts of the plate have slid as much as 30 ft. Some day, seismologists warn, the stalled sections are going to have to catch up with the main bodies of the plates. Strains are inexorably building...