Word: ponderator
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...hurried from state to embattled state, Ike presented other thoughts to ponder. Among them...
...jury of ten men and two women retired to ponder Randolph's complaint and The People's defense that its words had been "fair comment on matters of public interest." After 45 minutes, they decided that Randolph had been libeled and fixed his award at a handsome ?5,000 ($14,000), plus costs...
...explains Kefauver's vote-pulling powers wherever they exist. Many another Democratic politician can point to a farm record as staunch and steady as Kefauver's; Kefauver himself is almost inarticulate in expressing his policies. When asked precisely what he stands for, he is likely to hesitate, ponder painfully, and finally come up with some such phrase as "a place in the sun for the farmer," or "the best interests of the plain people of this nation," or "an even break for the average man." But the Midwestern farmer cares much less about what Kefauver stands for than...
...U.S.A. Native playwriting was solid too, but at a less lustrous level and in less creative guise. Much, instead of being directly created for the stage, was made over from something else, whether in such clear successes as The Diary of Anne Frank, No Time for Sergeants and The Ponder Heart, or such interesting failures as Mister Johnson and The Young and Beautiful. At straight playwriting, Arthur Miller came closest to real achievement with A View from the Bridge, but he let a longing for Greek tragedy blur the play's kinship with primitivist drama...
...chalk players, naturally, had known it all along. As they queued up to cash their mutuel tickets (the favorite paid $5.20 for $2), they talked of another Kentucky tradition: "Never bet against the son of a Derby winner in a Derby." Needles' sire, Ponder, ran off with the Derby in 1949. And just to make the old saw stick, Ponder's sire, Pensive, turned the trick...