Word: comprehendingly
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...what seemed at the time a relatively tranquil part of the world: India. This is her second cover story since then on the tragic subcontinent. "The conflict," she says, "is so suffused with ancient religious, cultural and racial hatreds that it is difficult for any Western journalist to comprehend it fully. There are times when the Indians and Pakistanis do not seem to understand it either...
...comprehend the results of the election, it is necessary to understand some of the underlying factors which have made Cleveland politics so volatile and unpredictable. The infamous Cuyahoga River, distinguished by its ability to catch five, dividers the city east-west, black-white. Some 40 per cent of Cleveland's eligible voters are black, and almost all of them reside on the East Side. There is very little interaction across the river in this polarized community. In 1967, and again in 1969, Stokes was elected mayor in close two-man races by carrying a solid 95 per cent...
...difficult for me to comprehend the lack of astuteness on the part of our party. This is one issue the Democrats have completely captured. You've got guys like Humphrey and McGovern who are making inroads, who know the farm problem. The White House talks about rural development. But who's running with it? Hubert Humphrey. He recognizes the fact that there are no job opportunities for our young people in rural America today. I sent telegrams to the White House urging that agrobusiness be represented on either the wage or price council. I didn't even...
...stand in Rome, innocently confident that the Catholic world still spins around the Vatican in reverent orbit, the facts are different. There are times when the center cannot hold, as Yeats said. Most especially it cannot hold when it is the center of an institution that fails to comprehend -or merely ignores-the centrifugal forces that are tearing at its edges. It is just that lack of comprehension that characterized the synod...
...negotiators also have not been able to comprehend the Vietnamese approach to negotiations, and as a result they have not been able to understand the actual negotiating positions of Hanoi and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG). The reasons for the U.S. inability deserve explanation...