Word: fathoming
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...survive.) Before his death in 1982, Jack Swigert, command-module pilot of Apollo 13 (a mission that taught NASA a thing or two about adventure), noted that the very thing that qualified lunar astronauts to fly the missions they were flying disqualified them from experiencing them fully. Can you fathom the utter, hostile emptiness of translunar space and still retain the calm to fly your spacecraft blithely through...
...artist's recorded voice whispers Lincoln's second Inaugural Address, with its moving call for healing during the savagery of the Civil War, but it too is interpreted, spelled out in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots (Alfa for a, Bravo for b), making it nearly impossible to fathom...
...Alzheimer's research treasure. From it, Snowdon has already found that tiny strokes may be the switch that flips a mildly deteriorating brain into full-fledged dementia and, bizarrely, that the density of ideas in the writings of a 20-year-old novice may be, for reasons nobody can fathom, a predictor of Alzheimer's at age 80. But in nine years of study, Snowdon has never been able to identify anything that might prevent the disease...
...number six million is difficult to fathom, and thus it is nearly impossible for people to appreciate the true magnitude of this tragedy. But to hear the names of each innocent victim, as well as the long sections of people with the same last name--presumably from the same family--actualizes the Holocaust for many listeners...
...number six million is difficult to fathom, and thus it is nearly impossible for people to appreciate the true magnitude of this tragedy. But to hear the names of each innocent victim, as well as the long sections of people with the same last name--presumably from the same family--actualizes the Holocaust for many listeners...