Word: comprehended
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...wage war, he reasoned, are messy inside and out, but the precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel...
...Army & Navy top commanders who had grown fat and stupid in peacetime service, or who were unable to comprehend the meaning...
...press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...
Children & Corpses. The magnitude of suffering and horror at Belsen cannot be expressed in words and even I, as an actual witness, found it impossible to comprehend fully-there was too much of it: it was too contrary to all principles of humanity-and I was coldly stunned. Under the pine trees the scattered dead were lying, not in twos or threes or dozens, but in thousands. The living tore ragged clothing from the corpses to build fires over which they boiled pine needles and roots for soup. Little children rested their heads against the stinking corpses of their mothers...
...adequately comprehend the battle power of the U.S. Navy. But now that it has grown to be the world's (and history's) mightiest, a few more figures could be given to outline its giant proportions. This Navy Secretary Forrestal did last week. Items...