Word: fathoming
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...Down There." Root's plans for an assault on the record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with...
When British troops finally reached Arnhem, Audrey recalls, "I stood there night & day just watching. The joy of hearing English, the incredible relief of being free. It's something you just can't fathom...
...Famous Invasion in Sicily, is one of the few who have come close to rewriting a whole Kafka parable. The Tartar Steppe follows the style, mood and architecture of Kafka's Castle, the story of man struggling hopelessly to enter a stronghold in whose depths, could he but fathom them, lay faith and stability. The difference is that Buzzati's hero struggles from within the stronghold itself...
...once to promote a short-lived amnesty for the Huks in 1948, which Taruc used to his advantage and then violated. But his specific and detailed renunciation of Soviet Communism was something new: "It negates the existence of God ... advocates a Godless society. As a Christian, I cannot fathom the depth of the spiritual emptiness of living under such a kind of society." Stalin's Russia, the letter continued, is "a ruthless form of tyranny perpetrated upon a hapless people." Even when the party line says to dissemble, Communists do not usually talk like this. What was going...
...with Truman, the Former Naval Person hammered out a compromise: the U.S. will have NATO's top naval post after all (to go to the Atlantic Fleet's chief, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick), but the British Admiralty will have independent command of all waters within the 100-fathom line around the United Kingdom. This would keep...