Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found the departure of female cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things...
...found the departure of female cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things...
Children understand these pleasures long before they comprehend sexual reproduction, the structure of our government or any of the other traditional lessons of childhood. As he enters adolescence, he may combine the three-day weekend with another time-honored American tradition: the road trip. And unless he was born into money, he will no doubt learn to equate that pasted-on day with time-and-a-half...
...happen to us." Well, yes. Beyond that, there is the question of whether this is a work of the darkest evil imaginable or a more or less random act of malice and greed gone awry. Random violence cannot be dealt with as a practical matter, but it can be comprehended. Evil on this scale is impossible to comprehend. To know who murdered JonBenet Ramsey is to know what world we live in, where...
...game was over and the Crimson was suddenly dead. Players and fans alike stood in shock trying to comprehend how Harvard could have lost a marathon game they thoroughly dominated. The scoreboard read 2-1, but might have easily been 7-1 in favor of the loser...