Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, the Senate subcommittee adjourned to ponder the qualifications and the liabilities of the most controversial of the 124 appointments to federal benches made to date by the Administration...
Puzzled indeed. As President Kennedy learned when he surveyed and discussed the multitudinous business barometers last week, an expert could study one set of indicators and conclude that the economy would continue to expand, then ponder over another set and conclude that recession looms ahead. Right now the economy is expanding-but not so robustly as many businessmen think it should in this stage of recovery...
...Boris Artzybasheff is well known for his gift of playfully animating spaceships, big drill presses, power lawn mowers and other solemn objects. On this week's cover, he has not only given life to the moon rocket, but left a hidden message on the moon for taxpayers to ponder...
...were in Washington," says the University of Chicago's Lorie, "I would ponder the fact that the really steep decline of the stock market started at the time of the Kennedy-Blough battle. I would ponder that, because to a great extent our growth, our prosperity and our hopes of moving the country forward depend on the confidence of businessmen, large and small, and their expectations for the future. If those expectations are damaged, that could be much more serious than the stock market decline...
...Lowell House Junior Common Room. Miss Welty's works include several volumes of short stories: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Bride of Innisfallen; a book of interrelated stories: The Golden Apples; a novel: Delta Wedding; and two short novels: The Robber Bridgeroom and The Ponder Heart. She has received three O. Henry Memorial Prizes, two Guggenheim Awards, an Harvard from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and in 1955 the William Dean Howells Medal, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of American fiction written during the previous five...