Word: apprehended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...
...this point, it all seemed unreal. But the second car's arrival forced me to take it more seriously. I hoped the police were not prepared to "apprehend the perpetrators." There were several inaudible words over the walkie-talkie, then I heard "dark clothes..." I cursed myself for not being dressed in a bright suit...
...Cambridge police officers had never had to break an student demonstration before. They had only been trained to apprehend criminals...
...police officer is not just to apprehend criminals. In a more fundamental sense, police are supposed to protect citizens and to ensure that their rights are safeguarded...