Word: fathoming
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Then, just the sort of scene that makes Lebanon so maddeningly difficult to fathom occurred. The four men, mortal enemies for the most part, behaved like chums at a class reunion. "One might have thought they had all known each other," marveled an observer. "A very friendly group, with no tension...
Even knowing this, it's still difficult to fathom the blow to the USMA psyche that occurred in October 1980, when, in the first Harvard-Army game in 29 years, the 12-point underdog Crimson left a packed Michie Stadium with a 15-10 win over the Black Knights...
...physically fit have an undeniable appeal to each other. Says Writer Rocco Saragosa, 31, furiously pedaling a stationary exercise bicycle at Los Angeles' Nautilus Spectrum: "I can't fathom being with a woman who's not in good shape." Glancing at the tall, slender, dark-haired woman pedaling next to him, he observes, "Any time you see a woman who knows how to sweat like that, you just gotta get to know her." The woman, A.J. Bernstein, 35, a freelance photographer, has the same ideal. "I'm not turned on by flab," she says...
Even before the staggering influx of foreign settlers, L.A. was a big, sprawling, hard-to-fathom place. It was the first great Sunbelt city, stretched and shaped by the automobile into a half urban, half suburban archipelago. Says Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments: "There has never been one huge predominant city. There have been conglomerations." Most of what commonly passes for L.A. lies inside the generous boundaries (4,083 sq. mi.) of Los Angeles County. The county, bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, contains lots of undeveloped, unincorporated scrubland as well...
...North Yemen to Sweden and then to Tunisia, supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense discussions with King Hussein a week earlier. By not doing so, he dealt a crippling and possibly fatal blow to the bold Middle East peace plan that Ronald Reagan had proposed last September...