Word: ponderator
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That the British met disaster in Libya, and in the first stages of the battle for Egypt, was something for the U.S. to ponder prayerfully: the U.S. Army has yet to meet and beat the German Army in World War II. And, for British and U.S. military men alike, Libya and Matrûh held many a lesson...
...hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive...
Litvinoff, six months out of Russia, knew his nation was still confident, as it had been even when the Nazis battered at Moscow's gates and the whole world thought Russia crushed He could ponder Joseph Stalin's new order of the day to the Russian Army (see p. 26), loaded with assurance that Russia had grown stronger, Germany weaker...
...Delhi, Brereton deposited Baby with Lloyds Bank, took one drink, put his gun in a desk drawer, and paused to ponder his asset: the cash; faith in Washington; faith in his own judgment that a mighty air striking force could be amassed in India. A few days later, 17 officers and men followed him to India in a PBY flying boat. They were the nucleus of his staff...
...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...