Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They find solace in the presence of others their age who have not yet tried marijuana-or listen spellbound to a youngster who claims he has. They display as much interest in girls as anyone else their age, and so they ponder the mysteries of love. A few wise guys have smuggled in copies of the latest Playboy, and these are assiduously examined under blankets by flashlight...
Begin did not. He meant the French-built Tammuz 1 nuclear reactor at El-Tuwaitha, 10½ miles southwest of Baghdad. Begin straightway launched into his real reason for calling the meeting: to ponder what Israel should do in the event that the attack taking place 515 miles away should fail. Half an hour later, after several options had been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered...
Although Bok insists that he began to ponder the deeper implications of what has come to be known as "the Ptashne case" immediately after he got wind of it, he does say that the idea of going through with the deal "reached me with some momentum" and that "everyone was quite enthusiastic about it." Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and a member of the Faculty Council, a group that considers issues of interest to the Faculty, is somewhat more blunt in his assessment: "They had not thought the issues through--they saw dollar signs and got excited...
...problem is, everyone believes in the text. Enshrining the words begs the far more important question: what do you do with them? The academic can ponder this without forcing the issue, but the director faces it each working day. If you search back in Brustein's writings to his earlier, theoretical broadsides like "No More Master-pieces," you'll find there an outspoken defense of the text against directorial depredations. Brustein argued that the text was the director's treasure house--by mastering it, he could find the appropriate way to direct a play, the right metaphors, emphases and designs...
...aftermath of Jimmy Carter's defeat, his pollster Patrick Caddell sat down to ponder the debacle with Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute, and Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan's public opinion expert...