Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neutrality of Sweden in war is much simpler to comprehend than the delicate balancing act that it practices in world literature. The Swedish Academy hands out the Nobel Prize with a fine impartiality. This year a Frenchman, another time a German. Now a Russian of whom even Stalin could approve, then a Russian who cannot even show up to accept the award. And there are the obscure choices-the Icelandic novelist or the Italian poet, each known to only a handful even in his own country...
Moreover, he can comprehend and recall what he's read--right down to the particulars...
...Please comprehend that in no manner or form do I endorse the tenets of Nazism. I reject the entire Nazi philosophy. I only wish that Commander Rockwell had done the same...
Quite possibly, Romney did not fully comprehend the implications of that ugly term to brainwash.* In any case, it is unlikely that his opponents in either party will allow him to forget his gaffe-not to mention the cartoonists, who henceforth will surely not miss a chance to picture the Governor's cranium wreathed in detergent foam. And all can do it with impunity, since he did it to himself...
Stunned beyond belief, shaken beyond admission, still unable to comprehend the disaster, the Arab world last week lurched violently between collapse and retribution. It could no longer make war, but refused to make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it indulged in an orgy of breast-beating, rationalizing, complaining and threatening that seemed intended to prove both that the Arabs had won the war and that someone else was to blame because they had lost it. "Defeat exists only for those who admit it," said Cairo's semiofficial newspaper...