Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decent and he understood other people's failings. (Sometimes he was too decent: he sold a copy of Michael Harrington's Socialism to my roommate; unfortunately, on credit). Last summer, Nick rented an apartment in Cambridge, from which he could commute to his job in a Boston Liquor factory. He proudly displayed his poster of Karl Marx on one of the apartment walls, and shortly afterwards invited the landlady--a nice, conservative, elderly woman--in for tea. Seeing the Marx poster, the woman asked Nick who the bearded, stern Victorian gentleman was. Nick was not fazed: he explained that...
...have taken place inside the sleek temples of modern finance would require a cram course in the complex ways of banking. Fortunately Martin Mayer has done the necessary homework for interested laymen: he offers a clear, detailed and well-paced book about one of the nation's least understood institutions...
...spoke in North America. Sometimes she would not understand a conversation because she could not comprehend the "Black English" we spoke. Ilda explained how she had learned English from textbooks bought before 1959. These books were based on English spoken in Britain. We laughed at her confession and immediately understood some of the difficulties in our communication...
Full Meaning. A section on liturgy warns that Catholic preachers must carefully explain biblical references about Jews that could be understood as pejorative characterizations of the whole people, as for example in the Gospel according to John. The guidelines point out that Old and New Testaments "illumine and explain each other," yet they also state that "the New Testament brings out the full meaning...
...Bowling Green's faculty members. Says pop cult Assistant Professor Michael Marsden: "There's still the suspicion that we're pandering to popular tastes and faddism." There may be some cause for this suspicion. Even its sup- porters admit that popular culture is not a well-understood discipline. One question on the final exam for the introduction-to-pop course this month asked, "How would you now explain to your parents what this popular-culture stuff is all about...