Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stalled. Overwhelming compliance with the Civil Rights Law had seemed to lift a moral burden from the nation's conscience. The Goldwater Convention had stolen from the movement Morality, the American Heritage, the Constitution, and God. And liberals were busily setting aside Baldwin's essays in order to ponder George Gallup's assessment of backlash...
Foreign ministers of the 34-nation Organization of African Unity met in Addis Ababa last week to ponder "an African solution" to the agonizing Congo rebellion. The session had been called at the request of the Congo, whose controversial Premier Moise Tshombe had come under heavy attack for hiring white mercenary troops-but found himself unable to contain the rebel advances without outside help of some sort. What Tshombe wanted was African troops for police duty in pacified areas in order to free his own harried Congolese army to fight the rebels. As he told the delegates: "Such an arrangement...
Pittsburgh is a city with a head of steam, a heart of steel and one subject on its tongue. The steel chieftains ponder it in their exclusive Duquesne Club; the middle managers anxiously debate it in the Bar D'Or at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel; the mill hands chew it along with pretzels and pistachios in beery saloons from Ambridge to Donora. The subject: the change that is coming over the United States Steel Corp. Behind the closed doors of its executive suites, the world's largest steelmaker is shaking through the greatest reorganization in modern U.S. business...
Loss of Memory. When Ike was stricken by ileitis in June of 1956, he found himself too preoccupied to ponder the disability problem. Explained Ike simply: "It hurt." About a year later, Eisenhower suffered a minor stroke, which he described as "a spasm of the brain." Said he: "For 24 hours I had an absolute loss of memory for words. If I wanted to see anybody I couldn't possibly remember their names. This passed quickly...
Thoughts in Bed. The time may come when it will be better, both for him and the nation, to sit down and ponder a few problems rather than rush all over talking about them. But until that time does come, Lyndon Johnson is riding a crest, both as the President of the U.S. and as a politician seeking reelection. "Every night when I go to bed," he said recently, "I ask myself: 'What did we do today that we can point to for generations to come, to say that we laid the foundation for a better and more peaceful...