Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people scratched their heads. What, indeed, was a good name for the war? Asked for his suggestion, onetime Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler declared: "There is far too much pending now to permit anyone to stop and ponder anything like the name for this war. Moreover it is far better to wait until it is over. Then it can be more appropriately named." Snapped Senator Robert Taft: "I am no zipper...
...torpedo bomber, it excelled anything the Germans had devised. In speed of maintenance, fueling and supply far from home base, it suggested the solution of problems which had seemed formidable to the Germans. In widespread yet effective dispersion of effort, it gave the Germans something to ponder...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
...waste time on half-baked military drill," the headmasters of some 30 famed Eastern schools (among them: St. Paul's, Taft, Horace Mann, Loomis) were told when they met at Pawling School in the Berkshire foothills to ponder the role of "Private Schools in This Emergency." They called in an Army and a Navy man, who flatly affirmed that the best service they can render the nation is to give their boys better training in fundamentals...
...third of a century has passed since Homer Lea had visions of invasion. Many men, among them many men of the U.S. Army and Navy, have had plenty of time to ponder his lessons...