Word: fathomable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party's decision in various ways. Evans and Novak have intimated that extreme leftists were controlling the Party behind the scenes. Others have blamed the Party's behavior on political naivete. All the interpretations have assumed that the caucus' unwillingness to compromise proved that the Party couldn't fathom the Great American Art of Politics. Perhaps this is a valid indictment, but it ignores the fact that the Party was trying to play not American politics, but Mississippi politics. And, as every FDP pamphlet explains, "Mississippi is like no where else on earth...
...Party's decision in various ways. Evans and Novak have intimated that extreme leftists were controlling the Party behind the scenes. Others have blamed the Party's behavior on political naivete. All the interpretations have assumed that the caucus' unwillingness to compromise proved that the Party couldn't fathom the Great American Art of Politics. Perhaps this is a valid indictment, but it ignores the fact that the Party was trying to play not American politics, but Mississippi politics. And, as every FDP pamphlet explains, "Mississippi is like no where else on earth...
...There are some sports the Russians still can't fathom. They play terrible tennis, they swim like drain plugs." Don't be shocked if a few drain plugs win gold medals at the summer Olympic Games at Tokyo...
Such skepticism is not hard to fathom. Past administrations have usually responded to congressional criticism of foreign aid by appointing a committee, reshuffling a few alphabetical agencies, giving the program a different name, and hiring a new boss. In its lifetime, the program has had no fewer than seven aliases and 17 administrators-without ever achieving basic reforms. If such reforms do not come this time, it may mean the end of foreign...
...Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...