Word: ponderator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a tense week of legal march and countermarch, political charge and countercharge, the U.S. emerged one big step behind its starting point. Plain for the world to see and ponder was the sorry possibility that Little Rock's Central High School, integrated last year in a costly, painful victory for law and morality, might reopen next week lily-white...
...Predominant U.S. military imagination tends to stop at the point of reciprocal nuclear holocaust. Why does the Soviet imagination leap this hurdle? Through continued ignorance of the effects of thermonuclear weapons? This can hardly be the explanation, now that the Russians have had years in which to test and ponder their own weapons. Garthoff suggests two other explanations...
...occasion'ly he'd ponder...
...strict? Or do you think your parents are too lenient? Give the reasons why.' . . . Frankly, I don't think it's anybody's business how we handle our children; especially, it is not for our 13-year-old daughter to sit down and ponder and write about her parents' at-home techniques. Suppose she decides we are entirely too strict. Does she call us into the living room for a friendly but constructive chat, or does she discuss us with her teacher-or what...
...respect it. He knows too that understanding and respect begin at home. He originated the the idea of the first Law Day as an opportunity for lawyers and laymen, too long carried headlong in the seething, exciting torrent of codes and laws, to take reflective inventory, to study and ponder the law's past and its present-from which it must derive its future...