Word: comprehendingly
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...perhaps we Americans can understand why the German people were unable to comprehend the hideous reality of the Nazis' organized lawlessness...
PORTLAND, ORE.: Because this city (pop. 360,000) has had no taint of local political scandal in 15 years, Watergate is all the harder for Portlanders to comprehend. By and large, they trust their officeholders. Even the people who are ready to believe the worst about Watergate commonly add a cautionary note: "But I don't believe this means that all politicians are crooked." Probably the hardest hit emotionally are the Republicans. Never truly comfortable with Nixon, preferring the Nelson Rockefeller brand of Republicanism, they nonetheless supported the President. Now they feel that their trust has been violated...
...Hitler, like Nixon, received his original mandate from a population presumably living in a democracy. And despite the fact that he was born, raised, and has lived in this country for six decades (and has held public office for twenty-seven years) Nixon still does not appear to comprehend the difference between a coronation and an inauguration, let alone the meanings of the words "freedom" and "democracy...
...that the President's subordinates were given the word but were themselves too stupid to comprehend his meaning?" Gold asks rhetorically. Here is a rhetorical answer of sorts...
...Heisenberg Principle also suggests that rational science may be limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...