Word: ponderer
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...Admiral's Son. Just before Christmas last year, Assistant Professor Kent Ponder, 34, a Spanish teacher, handed out a flock of Fs, including one to Midshipman Donald Minter, the son of a retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform...
Though the surreal James Bond would probably stand up and jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering...
Public hearings will be held, probably in May, to evaluate some of the river's troubles and to ponder some possible solutions. But Roger C. Albitson, project engineer, noted yesterday that some of the river's problems are pretty obvious. The river's "rotten egg" smell, he said, is the result of brackishness and pollution...
...will come increasingly into question. China's prophecy of U.S. imperialism will make more and more sense to the Third World; its offer to help underdeveloped nations "liberate" themselves from the West will become increasingly meaningful. And those who rely on the U.S. for defense against Communism may well ponder the costs of that "defense." We can only wonder with Langguth when he writes: "Will Thailand be reassured by a victory in Vietnam if it is achieved at a great cost to the civilian population...
...Final Statement. In the final lines of the drama, Goethe permits himself for the first time in his creative career to look beyond man's earthly life and ponder man's supernal condition...