Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COURT: Let me say what I understood by what you said. I understood you, by your use of the word "deliberate"--and certainly any layman would understand your use of the word "deliberate" to be in substance: premeditated for an evil purpose suppressed evidence. That's one of the two definitions in substance that the Dean just read. That is what I understood you to say in court. I am perfectly happy to hear you say what you had in mind...
...lesser scale: in smaller communities, in many organizations, in business. The gallery of rising American leaders that appears following this story contains many examples. Thus there should be hope for the emergence of a new generation of leaders?if only, somehow, the stubborn obstacles in their path could be understood and reduced...
...situation generally produces is not that the essential information about the earth's challenge to man is not available (though some of it is not), but that the simplicity and straightforwardness with which it is taught, as the Reverend Peter Gomes of Memorial Church recently pointed out, "frequently are understood to be the same as stupidity and naivete" on this campus; there just hasn't been time to cloak all the basics in the accustomed layers of sophistication and obliquity. Obviously, the student at times may come out ahead in such a situation...
...dimension and, particularly over Watergate, they have become mindless and reflexive. This is true not only of Richard Nixon's bedrock supporters but of many others-including, recently, Archibald Cox. The press should never expect to be loved or admired. But it has a right to be understood, and too many Americans do not seem to understand what the press is about and what part it must play in the American system. An estrangement between the press and large numbers of Americans is dangerous, not merely to the press but to the country...
Watergate is not really understood in Western Europe, let alone in Russia. As far as Brezhnev is concerned, Nixon is President and therefore someone to be dealt with respectfully and seriously...