Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here they sit, just past college age, at the crossroads between Now and Nowhere, waiting for answers to their two big questions: Marriage or not? And then what? Shrevie (Daniel Stern) is already married, to a girl who tries desperately to comprehend his passion for music and his rage for order-"How could you file my James Brown record under J?" Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing...
...more esteem from the Jesuit leaders than had been expected. But his very strength as a master of the Vatican bureaucracy also meant, said one participant, that his "mindset was such that it would be useless to debate." The assembled priests quietly decided that he was unable to comprehend how Jesuits out in the provinces must work to deal with materialism or widespread poverty...
Most people can understand the problem of declining government assistance. But to those unfamiliar with Harvard's labyrinthine financial structure it is difficult to comprehend why an institution with more than a billion dollars invested in stocks and bonds can't rely more on income from those investments to offset costs...
...documents were carefully selected by the Iranians to support their charges of U.S. subversion. Yet what emerges from the papers that came from the "nest of spies," as the Iranian annotations put it, is a contradictory and confused attempt by U.S. diplomats to comprehend the Shah's regime, the rebellion and the post-revolution government of Ayatullah Khomeini. Some analyses were chillingly prescient, others dangerously naive...
IMPELLED, DRIVEN AWAY from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...