Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dobrynin was free of the tendency toward petty chiseling by which the run-of-the-mill Soviet diplomat demonstrates his vigilance to his superiors: he understood that a reputation for reliability is an important asset in foreign policy...
...Head of the Church of England, but it should be remembered that she is neither its Primate nor did she celebrate an Office of the Church of England at anyone else's expense while she was here.) Yet the Pope's visit, remarkable as it is, can be neither understood nor appreciated without some sense of the context in which it is occurring...
...much prove that a Catholic could be president as show how little being a Catholic had to do with being president at all. These developments raised the nation's consciousness and provided the context in which the present visit of the Pope to Boston must be understood...
Brooke Shields [Aug. 13] is a remarkably fine person with great acting potential. However, I stated that she was as professional as my father and understood more about the camera and lenses than my sister. She is certainly not yet a better actor. That would be unfair to Dad and Jane...
...finest verbal illustrator of trends and fashions, he is interested in the truths that lie on surfaces. These truths are not superficial, though they are frequently overlooked in an age partial to overexplanations and psychic temperature taking. A 19th century novelist of manners would have understood perfectly. Readers in the 21st century will too, when they turn to Wolfe to find out the kind of stuff their grandparents were made of. - R.Z. Sheppard...