Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jobs in the missions; obviously, this kind of employment does not appeal to a woman with a career of her own. An embassy wife in Tokyo says flatly: "We're being posted back to Washington this year, and I have no intention of ever going out again." Couples ponder whether their marriages can survive separations for two or three years...
Unlike some shifts, like the weekend overnights, or the post-holiday mornings, the pace is low-key, and there are times between callers to sit back and ponder the situations that arise and what to say to people. What is mostly required is not knowing the answers--although having some facts at your fingertips is essential for emergencies--but being able to take your own ego out of the interaction and really listen to the caller, respond to them as a caring human being and not make moral judgments about their behavior. The point is to give them both...
...reserve reading for Nat Sci; Tuesday: outline paper, more reading for Soc Sci, general panic). Some people disappear into the dead zones of Widener, wandering through the stacks in search of something more interesting that "Population Demography of Rural Pakistan" and staring out the windows to ponder the meaning of life...
...breeziest introduction, but an interesting question. Yet before we can begin to ponder it, Crossley has invited himself to lunch where he proceeds to shatter glasses, describe how he killed his children during his 18 years in Aboriginal Australia, and provide compelling conversation about the methods medicine men have for killing people. (They remove your kidneys while you sleep...