Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing can last as long as six days-counting tea breaks. What baseball fan could be expected to comprehend a game in which the batter hits the ball on the bounce, runs only if he chooses to, and is considered unrefined if he swings for the fences...
COLES: I know that this book will not be the easiest book for a lot of children to read, but I think it will get things going in their mind, even if they don't really totally comprehend everything that I had in mind when I was writing it--that it as least a beginning...
...difficult for some to comprehend that the teachers have left their classrooms not for the sake of salaries alone or even primarily, but in the hope that attention will be drawn to improvement of the "educational industry" itself. How many autoworkers in Detroit put their livelihood on the line in the hope that better Fords might be produced...
Moreover, she can comprehend and recall what she's read--right down to the particulars...
...only people who look on him as a parvenu from the prairies. Living in grandiose isolation at either end of an axis that stretches from the Pedernales to the Potomac, Johnson is a stranger to the put-downs and hang-ups (terms he would probably not comprehend) of a populace that digs op and pop art, Valleys of Dolls in paperback and microskirts in the front office...