Word: ponderably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This summer Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...
...only, smoky and unpredictable. Where Eva moves to her promised land with oversure aim, Cassidy never quite makes it. He stops here to help unearth a war-rare Finnegans Wake from the rubble, or just to lean against tired oars in a suburban outing pond. He also pauses to ponder a still-unclear conscience. But, getting nowhere in particular, he still manages to leave Eva behind by a few paces of poetic insight...
...world"? After many years in which Sister Luke makes a grim effort to be a perfect nun and instead becomes a perfect nurse, she leaves her convent. The conflict as to "why" is not stressed so strongly in the film as in the book; the audience is left to ponder the "why." Her confessor in a darkened confessional scene tells Sister Luke that she is too hard on herself. It is difficult for her to accept a change in assignment from Belgian Congo to convent headquarters. It is difficult for her to love the enemy that has killed her father...
...have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over thy prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener." The bottle-smashing was over, and as President Conant handed out the 655 first diplomas of his career, the Class could well ponder the uncertain seas ahead.DEAN LEIGHTON...
...general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and mothball his opinions." His target: Britain's retired Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who let Bradley off easy in his potshotting memoirs, more recently lambasted current U.S. leadership. Another Bradleyism for Monty to ponder: "So swift has been the advance of technology in our armed forces that there are no longer any retired military authorities-only active and practicing ones...