Word: mull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother's cow for the beans that grew into the giant's beanstalk. Possible comeback: But he didn't pay the giant.) Does Jack succeed because of magic, good luck or his own efforts? (The story includes some evidence of all three.) The students also mull over different characterizations of Jack and the giant in two different versions of the story...
...what had happened? How could the skilled diplomatic bureaucracy of a superpower mull over a highly sensitive document for nearly a month, scrutinizing each word, and then cast its vote in error? Because of a communications gap between Washington and its U.N. Ambassador in New York? Or between the President and his Secretary of State? Carter's explanation was not only lame but incredible. With one swift stroke, he had destroyed the growing notion, so carefully cultivated in this election year, of acting calmly and shrewdly on foreign policy matters...