Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unspecific word definitions is my favorite activity. As soon as someone attempts to answer a section leaders question, I like to excitedly break in and say something like. "Fah! Your words are open to blatant misunderstanding! Surely we must establish a common vocabulary if we can ever hope to fathom even a modicum of what Pope meant. That is to say, what he 'meant', what he MEANT, and-or what he "MEANT'! It is simply meaningless to go on unless common meanings are first established and maintained...
Celebrated for their wantonness, the favored Hurricanes breezed into Phoenix wearing paramilitary camouflage and murderous expressions. "Football players aren't studying to be priests," reasoned Defensive Tackle Jerome Brown. "They're learning to kill." How they were killed instead, 14-10, was an amazement difficult to fathom completely, though it had something to do with faulty stereotypes on both sides and the fact that Penn State caught just as many passes from Miami's quarterback (five) as from...
OBVIOUSLY, POLITICS was more complicated than I had realized. Years of hard work, selfless determination, and $1000-a-plate dinners would be needed before I could hope to fathom such a complex issue. But I had one final question for Mr. Fury before I left...
There was no way I could begin to fathom the different world from which this point of view originated. Perhaps only from a landscape which, from the hills, seems to be nothing more than a village of craters...
...habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene." In other words, the development...