Word: comprehend
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Sometimes Gates seems pleasantly bumfuzzled by recent turns in the relationship between the superpowers. Last August, for example, his son Brad, then 10, was struggling to comprehend what he was hearing from his cold- warrior father. "Let me get this straight, Dad," Brad said. "The Russians are on our side in this one?" Gates smiled and nodded. Brad replied simply...
...hard work -- that most Americans still hold dear. Fragmented by an intraparty civil war that began in the 1960s, Democrats misconstrued voter complaints about crime as racism and mistook the tax revolt of the 1970s for selfishness. Eventually, George Bush crucified Michael Dukakis when the Democratic nominee refused to comprehend why support for the Pledge of Allegiance mattered deeply to voters...
...aftermath of a fierce cyclone looks like a judgment. But no reasonable attempt to comprehend Bangladesh's afflictions could find a moral in them. In 1970, a year before the birth trauma of the Bangladesh republic, a cyclone may have taken half a million lives. The number was only a guess: survivors, typically poor rice farmers and fishermen on exposed delta islands, can never afford to count the lost. Their suffering -- starvation, cholera, typhus -- is just beginning. Tagore identified April with Rudra, the Indian storm god, but Sea-Waves is really a meditation on "brute Madness." Wonders the poet...
...most important single thing is to have a real vision of the University and that he or she has an ability to comprehend and understand human chemistry," said Hershbach. "That's more important than molecular chemistry...
...There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...