Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China, the American public has been besieged by first-person accounts of their trips. There is, of course, a long history of such travelers' tales about China, starting with Marco Polo; the West doesn't seem to get tired of the genre, as if it were unable to comprehend the nature of Chinese society except from a personal viewpoint...
...Prize for Physics. While the scientific community applauded the award, the significance of his discoveries, for the most part, escaped the general public. Except for particular areas of research, such as possible cures for cancer, most scientists investigate such arcane aspects of general scientific problems that few laymen can comprehend the significance of their work. But recombinant DNA research, or gene splicing, associated with wild scenarios of two-headed monsters, has brought scientists and laymen together over the past three years to mull over the potential dangers of conducting such research. Scientists are straining for the opportunity to conduct experiments...
...rope stretched between the animal and the Superman" - Shaw found his equivalent for God in what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo sapiens, which presumably could comprehend the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence. That is his rationalizing sanction of the mat ing of Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield. They might produce a brainy superbaby...
Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
They can also be extremely difficult, full of contradictions and imperatives that are hard for Americans to comprehend. Westerners tend to regard negotiations as a vehicle leading to compromise. The Soviets more often view them as a struggle to be won. The difference is all the more important right now because the U.S. and the Soviet Union face a series of negotiations, beginning with SALT II in Geneva last week, that will determine relations between the two countries for many years to come...