Word: fathoming
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...California with 26 cases of ginger beer. Wears striped pants and kid gloves; constantly jots down notes for a book called An Amble Over the Rockies. Part of the amble is described by McPheeters Sr. in letters to his wife. Son Jaimie, a growing lad who can never fathom what grown men see in women, tells the rest of the story; his insights and outlook are highly reminiscent of Huck Finn. He contributes many a stomach-turning episode, notably his pouring a brew of poisonous Indian medicine down ailing father McPheeters' throat through an oil funnel: "He spit...
...fashioned three-P football: punt, pass and pray for the breaks. They kicked repeatedly on third down, completed a couple of passes, even got a few breaks when Navy backs fumbled the waterlogged ball. But all their prayers only produced a Navy attack for which they could not fathom an answer...
...This particular private hell is an apartment in a big Manhattan housing project. Don Murray is a jobless Korean veteran who, through some mischance of war, becomes addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray's indulgent brother (Anthony Franciosa). a bouncer in a B-girl bar, understands too well; on Don's perennial promise of "quitting tomorrow.'' Tony has foolishly shot...
...President was plainly touched when Stewart, who had served under him as a bomber wing commander, concluded: "God bless you, Mr. President." When the Atlanta pickup came, both the President and Mamie gazed closely at the face of their old friend, Golfer Bobby Jones, as though trying to fathom Jones's present state of health (he has long suffered from a spinal ailment). Ike laughed happily when Jones assured him that "the golf course is in fine shape." Minutes later the scene switched to Houston, with the crowd roaring, "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You"-to which...
Back-slapping Communists, factory-building Germans, threatening Chinese; "Government 185" tries to fathom these current puzzles of United States foreign policy by viewing them in the light of our experiences since the first world war. Professor Bundy leads the investigation of "The United States in World Politics,' 'which meets in Sever...