Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letdown is not even crossing my mind," senior Sarah Brandt added. "I cannot even fathom a letdown...
...thing or two about power. In May 1963 the public-safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., was ready to use water cannons and attack dogs on a group of civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The protesters responded in a way Connor found hard to fathom--they knelt in the street and prayed. "Let them turn their water on," said one. "Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them." Connor gave the order to mow down the marchers, and television beamed the scene to a horrified world. Among the viewers was President John...
...streets, malls and public high schools of Los Angeles, as well as in Harvard Yard, there are more cultures than I can fathom. There are even more names, a medley against which Spain, or any other country with such a single dominant culture, can't compete. After meeting my umpteenth Javier, I realized that names alone can be an indicator of the variety of a place. It's not that there aren't common names in this country; my name alone claims an unruly percentage of each entering class at Harvard. But names come from a family's history, religion...
...decisions made by the legal system, Elster will never be acquitted from public defamation and permanent stigma. We, as a community, can also thank The Crimson for pompously calling the nation's attention to Harvard, with empty articles on issues more real and tragic than The Crimson can fathom...
Jaws drop in shock as Morris begins paying romantic attentions to Catherine. Both of Catherine's aunts, Lavinia and Elizabeth (Sheila Ferrini), delight in her unexpected good fortune. Dr. Sloper is predictably skeptical, for two specific reasons. One, he cannot fathom that anyone would be interested in "such a dull girl." More to the point, he has not forgotten that Catherine does have one obviously pleasing attribute: an annual inheritance of $30,000. As the program helpfully imparts, Catherine's annuity compares to about half a million Big Ones...