Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment across the street at the gates of Widener Library, from which spot she could glance up at t balcony where the Porcellians sat. She could see the tall, handsome boys etched like goads against the darkening sky, the latest generation bred to nobility, silent. She could try to fathom what was in their hearts. And, like them, she could dream of the ineffable values of Harvard, and try to embrace them, for a moment...
...Mafia Leader Lucky Luciano. He later held the gambling franchise for Havana and, as the Mob's leading banker, had the task of laundering, investing and concealing its growing treasure. In the early days, Luciano used to marvel at the ability of his studious Jewish colleague to fathom the nuances of the Sicilian mind...
...race lent itself less to analysis than to psychoanalysis. Many polls showed the mayor leading by about 20 points. But the surveys were obviously unable to fathom the electorate's ambivalent feelings about Koch, who is charming one moment, grating the next...
...hard to find anything positive in a deadly plague, but immunologists, virologists and cancer experts agree that AIDS represents a remarkable experiment of nature. The new scourge, says New York Immunobiologist Pablo Rubinstein, "may teach us more about cancer and old, familiar diseases than we are able to fathom at this time...
...with him right now." But the dull blue eyes of their wayward son, pasted like wafers on his expressionless face, avoided the gaze of those in the courtroom through the very end. What emotions swirled in his twisted psyche-a mystery that neither psychiatrists nor jury felt they could fathom-were kept inside. John Hinckley had got off-and raised a nationwide furor about insanity...