Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move the Pope to action was doubtful. In Rome, Vatican officials announced that Pope Paul still had no intention of being hurried into making a ruling. In fact, said one prominent Vatican priest, the latest leak might well turn out to be controproducente (counterproductive): it might encourage Paul to ponder the issue even longer...
...also including Edna Ferber and Faith Baldwin-who flourished in the '20s and '30s, weathered the '40s, and have been losing much of their audience ever since. They appealed to women who had got the vote and, later, the household appliances that set them free to ponder Womanhood. What they wanted to hear was how tough it all had been, and no one told them more relentlessly than Author Buck, who, in her 32 novels and obsessive memoir writing, has ennobled the distaff drudge while painting a bleak picture of men and marriage...
...Supreme Court this week will begin to ponder the most significant railroad case to reach it since Teddy Roosevelt 65 years ago successfully fought J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill by contesting what has come to be called the Great Northern case. The question before the Justices: whether, and on what terms, to approve the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a $6 billion line stretching over 20,000 miles of track that would represent the largest private rail system in the world. By coincidence, the week also marks the fifth anniversary...
...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...
...lost his last job as a truck loader because of his troubles. In November, he was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct, after a policeman found him urinating under a porch near a just-robbed Chicago restaurant. He now faces trial on those charges, forcing yet another jury to ponder the endless case of the police v. Escobedo...