Word: ponderousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Walter Deane Fuller, 82, president (1934-50), chairman (1950-57), and most recently director of the Curtis Publishing Co., business-side head of the company before its spectacular decline; of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix, just before he was to attend a directors'" meeting to ponder Curtis' troubles; in Philadelphia (see PRESS...
...straight line behind the center, then shift suddenly to one side or the other. Out, too, went the old system of calling signals in the huddle. "In the pressure of the game," explains Parseghian, "you don't have time to listen to somebody yell '32' and ponder which hole is the three hole and which back is the two back. We just describe our plays in the most accurate way possible?like 'power sweep right,' or 'belly sweep left.' And we haven't had a badly busted play all season...
...inexorability of Fate. In the movie's least credible scene, Ford solemnly reports Nancy's verdict to a panel of CAB experts: the crash victims died because "for some reason or other, their time had come." Luckily, even in Hollywood the CAB shows little inclination to ponder the inscrutable. So Ford plods ahead to prove that Kismet was probably just a little short circuit. Hunter seems an unlikely choice for inflight screenings. Passengers on the ground may view it at their own risk...
Worst of all, the campaign's pell-mell pace prevents the newsman from pausing a while to ponder what he has seen and heard. There is scarcely time enough to keep up with the candidate. Last week Barry Goldwater's party, traveling by train for a spell, pulled so abruptly out of the station in Athens, Ohio, that about 30 newsmen were stranded on the platform...
...stalled. Overwhelming compliance with the Civil Rights Law had seemed to lift a moral burden from the nation's conscience. The Goldwater Convention had stolen from the movement Morality, the American Heritage, the Constitution, and God. And liberals were busily setting aside Baldwin's essays in order to ponder George Gallup's assessment of backlash...