Word: fathoms
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...that a woman from Virginia with a glossy American smile ends up in a seaplane, carrying her infant daughter over the jungle canopy of Peru? There are an estimated 420,000 Christian missionaries worldwide, but most Americans cannot fathom the choices made by Veronica (Roni) Bowers--a woman who raised her children on a houseboat on the Amazon and preached the gospel to people who have never seen a light bulb. Behind the battery of urgent questions about the tragic downing of the missionary plane are quieter ones about the people who died...
...thing, and I appreciate the NFL's tendency not to change its look too rapidly. Be happy that these days the NFL is "expanding" only into markets where it has failed before. For those of us who stare at the NHL standings every day and still can't quite fathom where all those awful southern teams came from, the NFL is a welcome sight...
Still can't fathom a South Carolina-Notre Dame Sugar Bowl? Maybe you're right and maybe I'm wrong. After all, what are the odds of South Carolina winning in The Swamp in Florida...
...termites" in the famous "Terman Study"--but this didn't prevent the Golden State prodigy from undermining the Constitution and destroying the international monetary system. In addition, his bizarre scheme of wage and price controls resulted in an unprecedented series of peacetime shortages. It is difficult to fathom such apparent ignorance of market economics from a man whose IQ scores were above the 97th percentile. In fact, to find a president of comparable mental stature, one must go all the way back to Herbert Hoover...
...catalog - and Gore came across subdued and humbled to a point. He didn't sigh. He didn't interrupt (much). He generally refrained from constructions like, "Let me explain why," "And here's how this works," or "Now let me put this in terms your puny man-brain can fathom...