Word: pondered
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...state he could win "given my positions, given the pros and cons." But at the Orange County Republican dinner Saturday night, Rudy made a telling quip: "People pay a lot of money to spend the month of Florida in January." When the political science classes ponder the remarkable collapse of the Giuliani '08 campaign, they might come to think of it as a $40 million Florida vacation...
...brunt of the explosion as it tried to pass the embassy vehicle. A third body, limbs blasted to bloody stumps, lay facedown on the road. To the east, the snow-capped peak of Mount Sannine turned blood red as the sun dipped below the Mediterranean, leaving the Lebanese to ponder the implications of yet another attempted assassination...
...possible the court will ponder this haphazard procedure and say again, as it ruled in the Francis case: Too bad--accidents will happen. Or it might follow the lead of U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who ruled that the three-drug cocktail, administered by people without proper training and supervision, is cruel and unusual. Or something in between...
Anxiously I ponder the ways I might reduce my shoe size. I have seriously considered banning Christmas gifts this year to avoid the senseless consumption of sheer stuff, but I don't want my kid to say she saw Mommy dissing Santa Claus. I could theoretically ride a bicycle to work, but I am concerned that somewhere along the eight miles of highway, I will have a seizure. I have looked into yurts, but they are not a popular housing alternative in New Jersey...
...explore Christian issues. In this poem, Valentine positions the speaker as Mary’s baby, writing, “She tickled me & told me I was beautiful / She held me in the ikon & we gazed.” These peaceful lines allow the reader to comfortably ponder whether or not Valentine is positioning her speaker as Jesus while characterizing Christianity as warm and maternal. Similarly, in spiritual poems like “Death Poem,” “The Afterlife Poem” and “To my soul (2),” the heavy issues...