Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise that some black students are confused as to what the situation really is, and why it is that way. If one works with basic premises, and realizes that the voice of authority is not the voice of truth but only that of authority, the situation may be understood...
...wouldn't have understood what they were talking about," says former Speech Writer Emmet Hughes. "Anybody who would have engaged in even a 60-sec-ond exchange like those would have been thrown...
...really understood in years...
Scientists have long believed that the irreversible damage caused by strokes results from cutting off oxygen to brain tissues that can survive only minutes without it. Now two neuroscientists have offered a more intricate theory that could explain some little-understood symptoms of strokes. It could also lead to treatments that could minimize the effects of strokes, which kill more than 200,000 Americans a year...
There can be no question about the worth of these reforms. But the medical profession's sharp swing from ignoring women's sexuality to over-solicitous concern for women's sexual well-being seems to indicate that a great many doctors have not understood the depth of their own prejudices. To view a woman patient as a walking baby maker, or as merely a product of her own sexual tensions is just as repressive in 1974 as denying her a sexual identity...