Word: pondered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smoking," the scientist said, "is the leading important feature that the vast majority of the lung cancer patients have in common. We owe it to ourselves," he continued, "to ponder carefully whether as individuals we wish to smoke cigarettes and run the risk of cancer...
Doubtless your Nov. 1 article on "The Uneasy Scientists" will worry many a pulp-headed liberal. These sacred beings are being shackled, muzzled, harassed, etc. by military bureaucrats, politicians, officials, etc. Before falling suckers to this woolly-headed whine about thought control, let us all ponder an item in the Education section of your same issue, which reveals that a sample of 15 U.S. scientists showed two-thirds ignorant of the most elementary history and illiterate in philosophy. It is bad enough that scientists presenting themselves for a Doctorate of Philosophy should be crassly unaware of the meanest elements...
...millions of Americans who deplore and despise Senator McCarthy want to understand the millions who admire McCarthy, "despite his methods," they could ponder McCarthy's record of the week. The bully-boy manners, the sneer and the smear are conspicuous in the record. But alongside such trademarks of the McCarthy operation there was also the record of a week packed with investigative achievement. McCarthy scored heavily, and some of his points were of real and current importance. Among them...
...occasion of his election as president of the National Press Club. As an "elected official," Ike wrote, Vaccaro must realize that the members would demand a program for reducing dues while balancing the club budget and providing bigger and better meals at lower prices. Vaccaro would have to ponder on how to do this. "If you find out," Ike wistfully concluded, "please let me know...
...late fall of 1762 seven stern-faced Puritans gathered in the drafty study of President Holyoke's house to ponder a recent rash of "frivolity" fast spreading through the Yard. After an hour of heated discourse the Corporation unanimously ruled...