Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Congress from legislating an even larger boost. But evidence to the contrary continues to accumulate Last week Democratic staffers of the Senate Watergate committee completed a 359-page draft report that was damaging to the President. The investigators concluded that both the White House and the milkmen clearly understood that the cooperatives' pledge of more than $2 million to the Nixon reelection campaign was in return for higher milk prices and other favors...
...Kennedy's generally happy relationship with the press, but overlooks the late President's courting of reporters, his participation in the suppression of news about the Bay of Pigs, and his canceling a subscription to the critical New York Herald Tribune. Still, Salinger concludes, "The President understood one great truth about the relationship between the presidency and the press -and that is that they fundamentally have to be adversaries...
...near standoff, it did bring Giscard to power with a clear mandate for social and economic reform. In a conciliatory, low-keyed victory speech that seemed aimed as much to Mitterrand's crestfallen leftist backers as to his own supporters on the right, Giscard said: "I have understood in this campaign that you wanted change. You will not be disappointed." Giscard also promised French voters that they would be "surprised at the breadth and rapidity" of the changes he would bring to France after 16 years of conservative Gaullist rule. Those changes will begin to take shape this week...
...broadcast I was wondering why Mr. von Stade was complaining about being thrown out of an office building while Harvard was going to evict people from their homes, until he said something about how it was wrong to lay a hand on an official of Harvard University. Then I understood, because the people who run Harvard are elitist, and think that since they are from the social class which enables them to know more about Celtic Literature or kidney transplants they also know better than working class people what is better for the latter. Do they know more about Celtic...
RELATIONS WITH OTHER ARAB STATES. If Egypt is powerful, the Arabs will be powerful. We are proud of our land, and maybe some critics see this as Egypt first. But I feel that I cannot make myself understood in the world today without using methods that people elsewhere understand. We Arabs are very hot. We flare up, and we cool down. But here in Egypt, we now are using language that can be understood all over the world. A man must be a man of his word. I say what I mean, and I mean what I say, and this...