Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late President and his widow, together, for they have done more for our country than most of us can comprehend...
...millions more, widely dispersed English is becoming the universal tongue of trade, diplomacy, science and scholarship. Pilots of all nations use it for airways communication. Jazz teaches it to youth the world over. In emerging Asia and Africa, polyglot people take up English as the only way to comprehend their neighbors. The Chinese Communists speak English in propaganda broadcasts to East Africa. The Russians use it in broadcasts to the Far East, and stamp their Near East exports with the English legend, "Made in U.S.S.R...
...Religion of Film" is a timely analysis of the emergence of a real 20th century art. The sensitive director is given the opportunity to express his feelings about life, about death, about man. Truly this must be essential in these times, for if people can see and comprehend how others feel and act and react, cannot they better understand themselves and humanity...
...world's best universities to come out of modern missionary work: St. Paul's, in Tokyo. Its mission roots first established by U.S. Episcopalians in 1859, the church has had only a tiny impact on the country-in large measure because Japanese cannot comprehend such Western theological notions as sin. "A sea of good material," mourns one priest, "and yet we can scoop up so little...
Hilton refuses to comprehend bad news or business reversals ("Don't bother me about that," he says), and his top aides instinctively try to protect him from the harsh realities of the world. Says one: "For all his financial genius, he's the kind of man who can't catch a plane by himself." He is essentially a lonely man, and his closest friend is neither a businessman nor one of his four children, but his personal secretary for 21 years, Olive Wakeman, fiftyish, who acts as his chief buffer against the outside world...