Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught with the pre-invasion tension which gripped the rest of the world. Some of them were even talking about the price of lettuce and the tulips in Birdcage Walk. As at so many other critical periods in World War II, the British did not seem to comprehend the mighty portents of the hour. Or did they? It was too puzzling for Teutonic minds to solve...
...many young officers, said Annapolisman Baldwin, are "yes men." Too many lack initiative. Too many, on the other hand, "exercise the prerogatives of rank without recognizing its responsibilities." They have become "puffed up with importance and false pride; too few of them comprehend the one absolutely indispensable requirement of leadership, care of their...
...successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
...most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into the cylinder block. Basic reason: the Nazi inability to comprehend the fallacies of their own "total" war doctrine...
...gone on for more than four years now, with its incessant news of legalized wholesale slaughter. These repeated shocks of horror eventually numb the mind. . . . Murder at retail, however . . . is something else again. Anybody can comprehend a crime of passion or cupidity or both, and most people are fascinated. . . . We don't see what anybody can do about it. Or should...