Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator, Ruby Drew, is "sort of dean and master-at-arms in the House of Trainees" in the Church Zealous. This theological enterprise was founded and headed by the Prince o' Light, an impressive man who took "Exercises to Induce Continence," but who nevertheless caused ladies to "ponder the holy power hidden in this fleshly armature." Ruby Drew's story is of her efforts to bring her pale damned sister Savata to the grace of Prince o' Light rather than go on covered in feathers and fleshly glory at a nightclub in St. Louis singing her theme...
...taught the changeless meaning of the three most powerful words in any dialect--justice, virtue, and love; concepts that arise out of history in spite of the fact that, or because, history too frequently denies them. The imperative task of humans teaching is, interpreting history, to lead men to ponder upon and accept the essentiality of these three words...
...fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have to pay a ruinous price. As a result, many Germans are beginning to ponder measures that fall, short of actual reunification-such as trade pressure-designed to persuade Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to give East Germans a little more freedom and a somewhat better life...
Last week the jury went off to ponder the evidence against Lopez and Newrocky. Hours later the foreman announced that the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Then, at last, common sense asserted itself. Judge Bernard Schmidt, appalled by the overinflated proceedings, mercifully dismissed the case outright "in the interests of justice...
...Maybe the Movies." By week's end, the haggling over a Clay-Liston fight this fall was in full swing. Leaving his managers to work out the details, Cassius flew to New York to cut an album for Columbia Records and ponder the future. "Maybe after Liston...