Word: comprehendingly
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...world's best universities to come out of modern missionary work: St. Paul's, in Tokyo. Its mission roots first established by U.S. Episcopalians in 1859, the church has had only a tiny impact on the country-in large measure because Japanese cannot comprehend such Western theological notions as sin. "A sea of good material," mourns one priest, "and yet we can scoop up so little...
Hilton refuses to comprehend bad news or business reversals ("Don't bother me about that," he says), and his top aides instinctively try to protect him from the harsh realities of the world. Says one: "For all his financial genius, he's the kind of man who can't catch a plane by himself." He is essentially a lonely man, and his closest friend is neither a businessman nor one of his four children, but his personal secretary for 21 years, Olive Wakeman, fiftyish, who acts as his chief buffer against the outside world...
...Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head nor heart for economics, and left Benjamin to run his ministry...
...dinner at London's most fashionable clubs or private houses without passing swarms of well-turned-out and sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...
...instructors today speak in class only the language they teach, forbid English, repeat constantly, and guide befuddled beginners with props and pictures. Nelson Rockefeller learned his Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does not debate the point; but it does claim that it can help a businessman close a deal by giving him an effective working knowledge of the everyday language...