Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They should not be advertised on the radio in native languages, such as Swahili, which are understood by illiterates...
...right away it's clear that Salisbury has bitten off a mouthful, and he says so himself. Even the landscape--even what he sees from his airplane window--seems too big and varied to be understood in a few glib paragraphs, and so all Salisbury offers is his own personal view of America, an account of one person's journey to the burning heart of the American dream. "I have not tasted all the strata of our 215,000,000 lives," he says...
...understood this when he made his remark about Go, for the time Japan was militarily at China's throat...
...guerilla" fish to swim in; and no safe sanctuaries protected from destruction by fear of world opinion. Instead of a long, protracted war fought for no clear reason, the planning here calls for a quick, surgical operation with minimal loss of American life against a popularly-understood threat to the "American way of life"--a swift and decisive move which will unite the nation, rather than divide it with unending shame and recrimination...
Unfortunately I see little sign that Wilson's critics have understood his work. In fact, some criticisms seem to reflect a deliberate misreading of the book. A recent article on the editorial page of The Crimson compared Wilson to Herbert Spencer and attempted to find him guilty by association. This is purely a sophomoric game, just as it would be to compare a modern geneticist of Richard Lewontin's calibre to Lamarck, or to B.F. Skinner. Even during the late sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson...