Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the stupefying heat in search of trapped shipmates. Some had to don scuba gear and swim through inky water that rose over their heads in the darkened passageways. They hauled to safety many men who were horribly injured, unconscious or so broken by shock that they could not comprehend where they were. Not until after 3 p.m., more than seven hours after the flares first began their still unexplained sputtering, was the last small smoldering fire extinguished...
...political fortunes in California, a state that has long had to endure outside barbs. While Yorty's longtime foe, the Los Angeles Times, criticized the mayor's "indifferent performance" in fighting poverty, it came down hard on the subcommittee's "remarkable obtuseness in its failure to comprehend how the city and county of Los Angeles function...
...basis of very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly overlooked in this case...
Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who last November came within 2,000 votes of unseating Locher, had an entirely different insight. "Ralph can't comprehend the problem," Stokes said. "He thinks that because he doesn't have his hand in the cash box he's doing a good job. My campaign was for the people in Hough a symbol of hope, a chance to get at least a fair shake. Now they riot because they have no hope and nothing to lose...
...actions, messages or answers but states of being and feeling." Does every play have to contain a message? Should the playwright just supply answers? Three cheers for the playwright who can create states of being, arouse feeling, and make one think. As for the fact that "some playgoers cannot comprehend these modern plays," is the failure that of the playwright, or is it that of the playgoer who enters the theater expecting only to be entertained...