Word: mull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer what he thought of it all, he replied, in an unexpected display of laissez faire: "Don't know. I come into town to buy a shirt." But when May Day was over, the men in charge collected in a back room at the Moscow Hotel to mull things over. The crowd wasn't as big as they had hoped; the returning Korean prisoners had drawn the headlines away from their celebration; but they had satisfactorily fulfilled, they decided, what they had come to regard as Moscow's destiny: the perennial challenge to show the world...
...California ranch. He was an honored citizen of Burbank, and as he grew older, liked to get his vast bulk into a Santa Claus suit before Christmas and entertain children at a local department store. He never lacked whisky to sip, nor friends with whom to mull over the "great old days." He was 77 last week when he suffered a heart attack in his chair, asked his niece to call a doctor. He was dead when the doctor got there...
...sales so much that K-F had to cut production from 1,600 to 800 cars a day, would soon have to drop to 600. RFC offered Henry $25 million, and asked for stringent collateral. Henry, who hopes that defense orders will soon bail his company out, decided to mull it over...
Were enough young Americans being properly trained for the overseas careers in business and government that would be open after World War II? The prominent citizens who met, one day in 1943, to mull that question over decided the answer was no. So the notables-including onetime Ambassador Joseph Grew, Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, the Commerce Department's Will Clayton and Congressman Christian Herter of Massachusetts-agreed to start a graduate school of their own. That was the beginning of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and its School of Advanced International Studies...
...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...