Word: comprehendingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear of Amolsch, and a great deal of respect. From the first "chewing out" on the drill field they are prone to address him as "sir," instead of "sergeant" as they have been taught. Despite periodic admonitions, some cadets go through the first year inadvertently sirring Amolsch, unable to comprehend that on the drill field they actually outrank this holdover--or so it seems--from the barracks life of James Jones...
Before leaving for the U.S. and his new job as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy delivered a bitter epilogue to the Communists at Panmunjom. "Apparently," said Joy, "you cannot comprehend that strong and proud and free nations can make costly sacrifices for principles because they are strong, can be dignified in the face of abuse and deceit because they are proud, and can speak honestly because they are free, and do not fear the truth...
...Laurin's remarks in TIME, May 5, * relative to TIME'S recent article on Bishop Fulton Sheen. I fail to comprehend how one man can contain within himself so much bigotry and hatred as does the Rev. Roy Laurin, and he a minister of Christ's gospel . . . I also wonder how much of this hatred and bigotry he has instilled in the minds and hearts of his flock...
...fail to comprehend why the American people are displaying such enthusiasm for Eisenhower for President. People know almost nothing of the general's philosophy of government and his stand on vital issues confronting the people at this time. During the war he had a wonderful job in which he had a staff made up of the best military minds . . . No decision, no plan, no strategy can be said to have been that of Eisenhower alone...
...proletariat. "In every instance, Communism changes only partly dangerous sentimentalities and inconsistencies in the bourgeois ethos to consistent and totally harmful ones." This surface similarity made it hard at first for American liberals to realize the danger of Communism, especially since their philosophy did not allow them to comprehend the "evil" to which the Communist adapters stooped...