Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head nor heart for economics, and left Benjamin to run his ministry...
...dinner at London's most fashionable clubs or private houses without passing swarms of well-turned-out and sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...
...instructors today speak in class only the language they teach, forbid English, repeat constantly, and guide befuddled beginners with props and pictures. Nelson Rockefeller learned his Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does not debate the point; but it does claim that it can help a businessman close a deal by giving him an effective working knowledge of the everyday language...
...past time for warnings. There is presently violence in the South--white people are killing Negroes, Negroes are killing whites--Americans are slaughtering Americans. White people must begin to comprehend the Negro's demand for full equality...
...question of what conception a Harvard student can have of life outside the Yard. In an institution where seventy-five per cent of the students continue their studies in graduate school and where the only impressive adults accessible to students are scholars, it is difficult for an undergraduate to comprehend very well what "real life...