Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others are correct in urging the US to "ponder" our initial placement of Marines in Lebanon. But we must go one step further in admitting that we erred. To withdraw from the war torn country would not be bowing to intimidation, but, rather, a responsible recognition of our mistake...
...after a Big Red timeout to let him ponder his second attempt, and despite the best efforts of the Cornell fans to break his concentration, the third-leading scorer in Crimson history (now one point away from becoming number two) sent his 44-yeard rekick even higher through the uprights than his first...
...astonishment as they stare at the 5-ft.-long model of the Boeing 747 with its hundreds of miniature seats. Details about the disaster have seeped slowly into the Soviet Union, and the pedestrians passing in front of the Japan Air Lines office in downtown Moscow pause to ponder the tragedy of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. "Oh, is that the plane?" asks a wide-eyed schoolgirl. "It's so big." Murmurs her friend: "All those people." The exact death toll of 269 has not been made public to the Soviet people. "More than 200, I heard," offers...
...President flew back to Washington, a high-level task force assembled at the State Department to ponder appropriate U.S. countermeasures. There was general agreement that the Administration should not do yet another about-face on the grain deal, since Reagan had criticized President Jimmy Carter's embargo and a second one would virtually eliminate the U.S. as a credible trading partner. The various courses of action considered ranged from U.S. support of expected retaliation by airline pilots all the way up to a postponement of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks, scheduled to resume this week in Geneva...
...charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...