Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the leader of the Peruvian junta, professes that he cannot comprehend why the U.S. is so upset. The seizure was legal under Peruvian law, he explains. Furthermore, according to the junta's charge, IPC still owes some $690 million for oil it "illegally" extracted. To the junta's way of thinking, it is Peru that should be angry. The U.S., says General Velasco, "is a just country. I cannot believe that the amendment will be applied...
...Nixon Administration's proposed anti-ballistic missile system promises to be the most complex weaponry ever devised. Difficult as it is for laymen to comprehend the technical and strategic functions of the ABM, the great debate over whether the U.S. should deploy the Safeguard system is made infinitely more complicated by public uncertainty as to what the Russians may be planning in the way of offensive or defensive weapons. Last week, to bolster the Administration's case for ABM, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird made public some startling-and previously classified-information...
...difficult to understand how you can write of "Detroit's success with the instrument" when we have never even had any experience with it. It is also difficult to comprehend how you can quote a "Detroit police official" as saying, "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back out," when, in fact, the weapon has never been used in any crowd-control situation in Detroit or by Detroit police officers...
...Virginia slave, and now a Harlem resident. Her remarks on slavery, for example ("Sometimes people were nice t'ya, sometimes they weren't. Just like they are nowadays."), are representative, but only of a quite ordinary human being who, like us, is doing her best to comprehend the events through which we are all living. On the other end of the scale, there is a wonderful 52 by 14 foot mural of a Sunday school class taught by Adam Clayton Powell Sr. The kids pictured are an unbelievably engaging group...
...most of our national institutions these days rely upon college educated men for their leadership. Who is prepared to trust their sons--let alone the nation's destiny--to the leadership of high school boys and college dropouts? Only the grossly uninformed or narrowly bigoted critic could fail to comprehend that the armed forces have a perfectly valid need for a fair share of the time and talents of the young Americans who have been blessed with a college education...