Word: pondered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...banter we glimpsed again the man who won millions of votes in Texas and tens of millions nationwide. As he set his gaze on life outside "the klieg lights," Bush launched his Administration into the past tense, where he and history can ponder what might have been different...
...doctor asks me if I'm ready for my shots. At 37, and complimented more on my skin than on any of my other stunning physical attributes, I didn't expect to be told I needed Botox. "I would suggest just lightly across your forehead," he says. As I ponder this, he keeps going. "You have a very thick brow and deep-set eyes. It would be nice to do just a little brow lift so you have a more serene, refreshed, younger look." And then: "And a little bit around the eyes." When I demur, Murphy tells me that...
That is the question we are again asking this week as we ponder not only Israel's endgame with Gaza but also what the future holds for the Jewish state. Tim McGirk, our Jerusalem bureau chief, poses the toughest questions facing Israel: Is a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine still possible? Will Israel's hostile neighbors ever acknowledge and adapt to its existence? These are the issues that Israel and the world must reckon with...
...want to try to understand the perplexing character of this nation, turn to Working or Race, or any of Terkel's numerous other works. In each of them, the uncelebrated alongside the celebrated ponder what holds us together and what pushes us apart...
...unless one is able to weed through terms like “embarrassment of riches” in order to reach the core of the module, the effect is lost. The same critique applies to the “Diffusions” module, whose description declares that students will ponder, “What does it mean to belong to a where, and what are the signs, and forms, and idioms, of belonging—and unbelonging.” While appropriate for faculty, or even upperclassman concentrators, this sort of esoteric framework needs to be clarified and translated into...