Word: mulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evenings, over a cup of jasmine tea or a Bourbon oldfashioned, the Special Envoy would mull over the day's progress. In slippers and dressing gown, he would sit at his desk in the study bedroom, where two photographs of. Mrs. Marshall looked at him reassuringly, and pen terse reports to Washington...
...have no more nonsense about this. If Dr. Hutchins wants to mull further over Burke's possible reaction to Germany, let him read his Reflections on the Revolution in France and quote from that...
...Basso Pinza, his agents are now circulating a glossy, 60-page book which describes the singer as "a bronze Roman god come to life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity says...
People without Passion. His reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that...
Actually, many of the corporations which have filed know that their chances of collecting are slim. A large number have put in a bid only to get in under the statute of limitations, while they mull over whether to push their case. Others have filed merely for the record, i.e., to protect themselves against suits of stockholders who might otherwise feel the corporation was lax. Some tax experts guess that, at most, corporations may prove their claims to $3 billions. This is well worth the try, although the net gain will be far less. In many cases, corporations will have...