Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice is clearly between life and death; there are no other choices. Only a dubious liberal could ponder a possible third alternative--annihilation through inactivity. Is this really what Harvard's (or the nation's) liberals want? Daniel Markewich...
...bishop's views led the London Times to ponder whether "an old person's life is less valuable than anyone else's." Its own answer: while it is not less valuable, "other considerations are more important." In a letter to the Times, former Home Secretary Chuter Ede reminded the bishop that his Clough quotation had been taken out of context-that the poet had really meant just the opposite. The lines that follow it in the poem, ironically titled The Latest Decalogue...
...Hench challenged his hearers with the defiant statement that they would probably be unable to accept his theory at this stage. But since he suggested that it applied, beyond rheumatoid arthritis, to several disorders such as rheumatic fever, gout, psoriasis and ulcerative colitis, he left them with much to ponder...
When should college planning begin? Parents may ponder the answer of M.I.T.'s Director Thresher: "At approximately the age of one year." Thresher warns parents who set impossible goals: "There is no surer prescription for failure in college." He means only that a child's innate curiosity should be nurtured sanely from the start. If he grows up wanting to learn, "he does not have to be 'entered' in a college. He enters himself...
Abed with a back ailment last autumn, President Carlos Garcia had ample time to ponder the stunning election defeats his Nationalist a Party candidates had suffered in the major cities. By all accounts, a major crisis of conscience occurred, for the more sophisticated city voters (whose votes cannot as easily be bought as in the rural barrios) were protesting the Garcia government's record of influence-peddling, nepotism and mismanagement. "Will my grandchildren think I was a good President?" Garcia asked an aide. Manila cynics suggested that another question was running through his mind: Will the voters think...