Word: ponderator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming to his subject and maintaining his lapel grip, Khrushchev launched an attack on "responsible people in the U.S." who "read tea leaves" and talk of Soviet weakness. Some people, he said, "ponder why the Soviet Union has made so many proposals that please the West." They seem to think that if the Soviet Union makes a good decision "there is something that forced it to make that decision, and even that the Soviet Union fears some catastrophe if it does not." Let me tell you, said Khrushchev, letting go of Walmsley's coat but grasping his arm instead...
...wonder whether the American readers ponder as much about "Sin in Galveston." Or is this different since "sin is good for business," and since it is a "biological necessity" for some places...
...Socratic" is just one description; exasperated law students being what they are, others are unprintable. Yet most lawyers who have studied under Seavey would probably agree with Frank Pace, Jr., former Army Secretary, who calls the professor's questions "infuriating" but adds that they "caused us to ponder our own solutions and eventually to reach others more sound." Roscoe Pound places Seavey "among the outstanding teachers in the history of the Harvard Law School." Such tributes are particularly appropriate now, incidentally, for Professor Seavey is retiring this June after 50 years of teaching...
...dislocated shoulder sustained last week in the Renn match has permanently sidelined lightweight Tatsuo Aroma, who will be replaced by lanky sophomore Bob McLaughlin. Dick Hook, junior 157-ponder, in out for the season with a broken wrist. Letterman Frank Baker, also 157 pounds, is not expected to return until after mid-years...
During his busy week of work and play in Augusta, Ga. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), President Eisenhower also found time to ponder U.S. policy toward Latin America. From the holiday White House came news of three significant plans. ¶ Next week, in his Foreign Economic Policy Message, the President will ask Congress to establish the International Finance Corp. (TIME, Nov. 22) promised by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at November's economic conference in Rio. Proposed as a $100 million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also...