Word: pondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fabulous 1960s. Production, profits and personal income are at record highs and still rising. Yet last week the auto industry, at least temporarily, cut back production because of disappointing sales, and the stock market shuddered through its worst fall since 1962. Amid these conflicting currents, Lyndon Johnson continued to ponder one of the toughest decisions of his presidency: whether to raise taxes to forestall the kind of inflation that would inevitably lead to a downturn later or to avoid a tax hike for fear that it would hurt business this year...
...figure, were ruled out. On some stocks (21 on the Big Board and 13 on Amex) special margin requirements were set. American Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington last week reminded investors that "it is important, at all times, for people who assess the potential rewards of sound investment to ponder as well the inherent risks of ill-advised or casual speculation." Everybody talked about the small investor, but Etherington seemed to be pointing as well at mutual, pension and investment funds. Rules and reminders, however, did little to bank the fires. Last week, therefore, in the most stringent...
...Admiral's Son. Just before Christmas last year, Assistant Professor Kent Ponder, 34, a Spanish teacher, handed out a flock of Fs, including one to Midshipman Donald Minter, the son of a retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform...
...Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...
Though the surreal James Bond would probably stand up and jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering...