Word: pondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department, elaborate contingency plans were taken from the files for the information of the President and his advisers. In universities and newspapers across the country, journalists and professors began to ponder what the death meant. If it was assassination, who would be blamed? The Americans, the Chinese, or a deranged citizen? Who had actually killed him? Even if it had been a heart attack--and after the Premier's recent activity in Eastern Europe this seemed possible--the big question still remained. What would happen...
...inaugural address pledged the university to keep aware of the outside world, while preserving a haven for the detached pursuit of knowledge. Yale may hook up to educational TV, Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps or give harried students a year off to ponder their future. More important, though, Yale will remain geared to its smallish, liberal arts college-unlike Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility...
...Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege...
...calls had nothing to do with socialist realism. Instead, they were a tribute to Gloria Davy and Gloria Lane, two American singers who made Mahagonny a triumph in any tongue. "A fine pair of Glorias," said Corriere Delia Sera's man, giving Lane, at least, new reason to ponder her expatriate career. "Every two-bit American singe'r who has appeared in Europe has been engaged by the Met," she said. "I have a voice, experience, a reputation, and I'm a Jew. What more do they want...
...Calmer critics than Patman accuse the Federal Reserve of starting, or at least contributing to, the recessions of 1958 and 1960 by hiking interest rates and reducing the credit supply in its zeal to head off inflation. Now that some prices are rising anew, the central bankers again must ponder the question of whether to battle inflation at the risk of nipping the economy's three-year-old expansion. In recent months Chairman