Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side is right," Mr. Perry argues, but it will win only if its adherents are also its champions. And they will be champions only if they fully comprehend the rightness of the cause for which they are fighting. Moral relativism--one man's opinion is as good as anyone else's--is attacked as an enemy weapon which will weaken the democratic front...
...policy was lacking in Parliament, it was not lacking in Russia. Prime Minister Churchill admitted as much in his speech. Said he: "The Russians did not think that we or America had done enough to take the weight off them. . . . It was difficult to make the Russians comprehend the difficulties of ocean transport. . . . It was difficult to explain fully the different characteristics of the war effort of the various countries...
...from Mars such a program might have seemed inevitable. But the Man from Mars is reputed to be a reasonable creature and is known to see things on Earth in their broader outlines. He could not be expected to comprehend the racial and ideological antagonisms, the irritating practical difficulties...
...getting on. Indeed, it was going very badly. Singapore fell. It was not merely that Singapore was England's most famous bastion of empire-only slowly did the people comprehend that kind of meaning-but they felt, though no one told them, that Singapore fell without honor. Embattled upon an island thousands of miles from the battlefronts, forty million people felt profoundly unheroic. And only a year ago these same people-soldiers, tradesmen and housewives-had written into the history of a glorious empire its most heroic chapter...
...sense of remoteness from the war was explained by the fact that the only man who could explain the war news to them-the President-was not doing it. Or it was argued that the war was so vast that individual U.S. citizens could not hope to comprehend it, and were now pondering, bemused, while their radios warned them against complacency and their spokesmen chided them for their indifference...