Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public hearings will be held, probably in May, to evaluate some of the river's troubles and to ponder some possible solutions. But Roger C. Albitson, project engineer, noted yesterday that some of the river's problems are pretty obvious. The river's "rotten egg" smell, he said, is the result of brackishness and pollution...
...will come increasingly into question. China's prophecy of U.S. imperialism will make more and more sense to the Third World; its offer to help underdeveloped nations "liberate" themselves from the West will become increasingly meaningful. And those who rely on the U.S. for defense against Communism may well ponder the costs of that "defense." We can only wonder with Langguth when he writes: "Will Thailand be reassured by a victory in Vietnam if it is achieved at a great cost to the civilian population...
...Final Statement. In the final lines of the drama, Goethe permits himself for the first time in his creative career to look beyond man's earthly life and ponder man's supernal condition...
...wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil, and in Lima, at the Fourth Latin American Lutheran Conference, two major Protestant groups met to ponder their rapid growth rate (nearly 10% a year) and its portents for the future. As even Roman Catholic churchmen admit, the potential of Protestant expansion is unlimited. There is a strong tendency among the masses of the poor, the educated middle class, and the young to look upon Roman Catholicism as an elderly and often irrelevant institution. Still spiritually hungry, however, many find satisfaction in a simple...