Word: comprehendible
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...amazed at how wonderfully articulate our third, fourth-and fifth-grade children have become. Isn't it a tribute to the quality of the education they are receiving that they can already comprehend such descriptive characterizations as "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and dangerous...
...more than vague psychologizing about the SLA provides a valid basis for ignoring all moral discussion. The important lesson of the SLA is not how much evil can be accomplished by politically naive madmen, but how much harm can be done by rational, politically serious people who fail to comprehend their moral and political responsibilities or to live up to their announced ideals...
...Declaration of Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
...difficult to comprehend how an experienced politician like Vice President Gerald Ford could misunderstand the ground rules when chatting on an airplane with a friendly reporter. But that was Ford's excuse in conceding that he was the source of an article by The New Republic's John Osborne about who would be in any future Ford Administration Cabinet. While admitting the article's accuracy, Ford said that he thought the conversation was off the record. Ford would keep Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, according to Osborne. He would also retain Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan...
...hard to comprehend the morality and sense of responsibility of a man who savagely guards a tattered personal dignity at the cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership...