Word: ponderator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a web-footed crew of Australians collected 14 of 23 gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, the rest of the swimming world has faced up to an unhappy question: How and when can they ever catch up with the Aussies? While they ponder, the Australian Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...
...world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress of his wartime leadership, the hard, headlong man of decision came back to power...
...farmers. Said Mayor Koshige Nakamura moodily: "The leading villagers are well aware that the progressives used this base affair for their own political ends." In Tokyo the often anti-American daily Asahi commented: "In the aftermath of Uchinada are many issues on which all Japanese would do well to ponder calmly...
...years of service had brought him comfort and the athletic director's job, Jordan did not bother to point out that during his years on "the Square" his "classroom" had been ruthlessly depleted by both academic and physical casualties. He accepted his sentence stoically and went home to ponder an awesome question: After Harvard, where can a football coach...
...years of service had brought him comfort and the athletic director's job, Jordan did not bother to point out that during his years on "the Square" his "classroom" had been ruthlessly depleted by both academic and physical casualties. He accepted his sentence stoically and went home to ponder an awesome question: After Harvard, where can a football coach...