Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school. Dunstan Ramsay is a solitary man but not a recluse, one of those singlehanded voyagers who is happy enough to socialize in port, but who never spends much time there. The seas he is driven to cross are strange and not much traveled; his lifelong obsession is to comprehend the condition of sainthood...
...Vogelsinger did not deny the advantage Harvard and Yale had over other New England schools because of the educational calibre of the players. "These guys can comprehend sophisticated plays and strategy. If you are honest with an extremely intelligent player, you can do things with him that aren't possible with a less sophisticated player...
...mystery. Even before he understands them, he puts them together and takes them apart. He pops pieces of them into his mouth, and spits them out in odd shapes. It is a profound form of play, for it is the only tool a child is given with which to comprehend a world in which he coexists without really belonging -the world of adults...
...real conception of Detroit when I arrived there in June to spend the summer writing for its evening newspaper. Detroit is one of those places you read about but fail to comprehend. On the first day of work, though, I did realize that this city was ugly, class-conscious, industrial, polluted, depressing and depressed. I was quite happy to rent an apartment in Ann Arbor, forty miles away...
...buoyant optimism that had served a discouraged U.S. so well in the depressed 1930s. Always he had "confidence in his ability to persuade people face to face." In 1941, he would have liked to arrange a Pacific rendezvous with Japan's Premier Fumimaro Konoye, failing to comprehend (as Burns puts it) "that there were few misunderstandings between the two countries, only differences." Later, with the U.S. formally at war in Europe as well as Asia, he failed to perceive that the same observation would have applied just as well to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...