Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Serbs have not failed to comprehend this lesson. Month after month of "final deadline" came and went, culminating in nothing more than an aptly-named "pinprick bombing". General Cedras, the Haitian strongman, also knows that there's no reason to quake before the Clintonic ultimatum...
Walsh has to comprehend that he can do more for Cambridge by resigning than by remaining on the council as a lame duck. He's already been in office for nine years, and his fellow council members and the citizens of Cambridge will never again see him in the same light. Thus, for his own good and for ours, we must ask unconditionally that Walsh resign as soon as he can make his way to Cambridge City Hall...
...Faculty hasn't faced this issue," adds former HASCS director Lewis A. Law, who retired two years ago. "Speaking for myself, the Faculty administration basically doesn't really comprehend the magnitude of the problem...
...that, despite their circus-like choreography, childishly spectacular special effects, ostentatious costumes and sets, scores worthy of John Williams and embarrassingly inane lyrics, people shell out upwards of 50 bucks a ticket and get all gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...
...perhaps we have taken such matters too far. Perhaps the very principle of non-discrimination ought to be questioned. After all, cannot certain instances of discrimination be healthy? Do men really comprehend the challenges faced by women...