Word: pondering
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pore: to meditate or ponder intently; to read or study with steady attention or application...
...opinion in both countries is slowly changing. While the majority of Germans still strongly oppose participation in the war, they are beginning to ponder their country's global role. To many Japanese, the crisis is no longer just taigan no taji -- a fire on the other side of the river. Support for the U.S. has firmed up, reports a leading opposition Diet member. Says she: "We take it seriously that America, our longtime ally, is in trouble...
...conducting his point-by-point argument, Bush may not have satisfied many of his religious critics. But for the moment at least he gave them something to ponder, and on their own terms...
...SCUD and F-15 and our airwaves are suddenly, more than ever, monopolized by generals and Pentagon spokesmen, by understandably trembling journalists and the satellite-dished, horrific images of mothers placing gas masks on their small children, it may, now more than ever, be a good time to ponder the role--or, rather, the nonrole--of poets and poetry in our lives, of the men and women in this country who are dismissed from the daily hurly-burly of significance with the rather glib, dismissive term: "humanists...
...Quincy House grille, Karen J. Hullenburg '93 took a break from studying the works of Adam Smith to ponder the war. While video Games and foosball matches continued uninterrupted nearby, Hullenburg said she thought Americans should support the war now that the fighting has started...