Word: comprehends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most have "all their sammyglickness covered up with Oxford manners or have-one-on-me sociability or Christian morals that they pay their respects to every Sunday morning when they don't have too big a hangover." In parsing Sammy, he tries to find the Glick goal and comprehend the Glick means, even returns to Sammy's grubby childhood surroundings in Manhattan's Rivington Street, a thickly packed Jewish section...
...sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant...
...first constitutional convention of his C. I. O. : "After all I merely undertake to express and articulate in a public way the things that you say to me, the instructions that you impose upon me. ... If I fail to understand my instructions, if I fail to comprehend what you really mean in your resolves . . . my voice will be of no more value than the most humble citizen going about his obscure toil. . . . My strength is only the strength of the multitude...
American standards, assumptions, beliefs have had to be re-examined in the light of those momentous changes. In that re-examination our eastern universities have played a leading role. They have tried by every means of scholarship to comprehend the new forces, the new meanings. But the going is rough. The firm, sure ground of twenty-five years ago has dissolved into quagmires of conflicting opinion...
Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...