Word: fathom
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...notion that Thakur's skin color could qualify her as unattractive is hard to fathom. Hers is a universal beauty, and in the West, despite concerns about the sun's rays and skin cancer, people spend billions of dollars trying to duplicate her café au lait tone. But Asia, from its geishas to its Ganesha gods, has always prized the pale. And in India the desire is a national obsession. You see it in the personal ads, which range from the general ("Whitish girl invites match") to the pinpoint specific ("Suitable alliance invited for ... fair, smart, only daughter having advanced...
...impressed so much with her effort last year that she earned an invitation to the U.S. National Team as well. At the time, when I heard everyone talk about how upside-down the Olympic year makes the national title picture, I did not really get it. I could not fathom women’s hockey without the Ruggieros and the Chus out there on the ice.Well, last year, Corriero proved that there is depth and skill beyond beyond that upper tier. In fact, as each year goes on, more and more schools add a varsity female program and more...
...sense of wonder, with so much faux Spielberg--a boy hiding a creature in his house, à la E.T.; an average guy who becomes obsessed with the secret, à la Close Encounters--that NBC might as well have called this Jaws: The Series. Instead it was called Fathom, then renamed the equally limp Surface. Now people can't say, "I cannot fathom how this mishmash...
Weitzman described the $600 compensation as “way inflated†for a product he said many farmers pay to have taken away, and said he couldn’t fathom how Lane reached such an estimate...
...Aldgate station and, eight minutes into his journey, detonated an explosive charge in his rucksack. As the police investigation into the bombings continues, a conversation is taking place on streets and in cafés, mosques and church halls, playgrounds and council chambers. Its purpose: to try to fathom why Kaki and three other apparently happy, home-loving men turned to slaughter. The outcome of that debate will help shape how the whole of Britain copes with its future. The conversation has a special urgency among British Muslims. Many feel implicated in the attacks carried out ostensibly in the name...