Word: ponderer
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President Roosevelt had to ponder. But the hour was growing late: the U.S. had already contracted to spend at least $22,000,000,000 in fiscal 1942-some $9,000,000,000 more than it will raise with the aid of new taxes...
...opinions, advice, ideas, tips, plain and fruity gossip. His regulated mind coldly assayed strengths and frailties, measured promise against performance. Night after night he trotted back to the calm of the White House, puzzled over his notes; through whole days read books, articles, memoranda. He tried to weigh objectives, ponder human values, disregard individual personalities. Finally he drew his conclusions, drafted three plans basically similar...
Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...young P-40 pilots and their senior officers do not smile when they ponder the possibilities of air attack on the Eastern seaboard. Their job is to think about it and prepare for it as best they can. They know the Atlantic routes by which attack could come, whatever the cost in enemy planes and pilots...
...Coney Island-indeed for amusement parks all over the world-was a mechanical genius named Lamarcus A. Thompson, who at the age of twelve made for his mother the first rotary churn in the U.S. Later he started a knitting mill, then began to ponder upon the fact that under certain conditions what comes down must go up. At Coney Island, in 1884, Thompson built an uphill-&-downdale gravity railroad on a wooden structure 600 ft. long, the world's first roller coaster...