Word: mull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about illicit assignations, dead skunks and smashed guitars, among other things. He does not make lots of money, but people who've seen him have fun, even though a lot of them think he's pretty warped. But he's not, at least not any more so than Martin Mull. Or Atilla the Hun. --F.V.B...
...California, polls show a popular desire to reinstate the death penalty, and voters there will have a chance to vote on the question. They must also mull over a proposal to strike down criminal penalties for growing and possessing marijuana. Proposition 19, as it is known, does not condone the use of marijuana or legalize its sale. It does, however, permit smokers to grow their own grass. The notion is that pot users could then avoid dealing with pushers, who might also peddle harder drugs. The proposition's supporters point out that it is closely in line with recommendations...
...trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some neighbors across the way. The police are called and cause so much confusion breaking into the apartment...
About 500 alumni, coaches and players gathered to hear Ignacio, outgoing captain Gary Farneti, and retiring coach John Yovicsin mull over the prospects for future seasons and reflect on this year's 7-2 performance, which climaxed Saturday with a victory over Yale...
...sleep is dream sleep. In ad dition to the long sleeper's measurably greater need to dream - that is, to mull over the problems of wakeful life-Psychiatrist Hartmann proposes another function of sleep. Since the long sleeper shows more symptoms of emotional problems than the short sleeper, who resolutely avoids his problems anyway, it seems that he may use his hours in bed to give his subconscious sleeping self more time to examine these problems and, if possible, to work them...