Word: fathoming
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...found it creepy that Schwarzenegger appeared on the cover wearing a large skull belt buckle. I can't fathom why any professional would wear a grinning symbol of death to hold his pants up. Whatever his rationale, kudos to the photographer for making sure the buckle was readily apparent to the Governor's constituents...
...difficult for me to fathom what it must have been like to go to high school where the collective aim, and my individual goal, was not to make it to the best possible college, and I’d imagine the same is true for most of us at Harvard...
Apparently so, for in his memoirs - the English translation of which bears the weirdly exculpatory title In the Eye of the Storm - Waldheim had simply skipped over his three years of military service in the Balkans. I couldn't fathom how anyone's experiences in a time and place like that could fail to figure in any honest account of a life. When Waldheim made a point of showing me that he was reading Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List - the movie had been released there just a week or so before our interview - I developed a strong sense that...
...Timothy Leary: A Biography, the term psychedelic was coined by a British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, who had ingested mescaline in 1951. "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic," he quipped, setting the expansive tone regarding the drugs that Leary would later popularize...
...incidents throw this perspective into sharp relief: The distinction between the real world and campus life becomes arbitrary once we are reminded that no person or place is immune to real tragedy. At Harvard, like at other campuses across the country, students have been trying to fathom the horror of watching a fellow student stepping into a classroom and brandish a gun, or receiving a text message that a friend was shot. Such efforts have proven futile. All we can do is send our thoughts and prayers to our peers in Blacksburg and hope that Virginia Tech?...