Word: ponderousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implacable challenge of Communism, which incessantly practices intervention of many kinds as an instrument of gradual world domination. To combat Communist interventions, the West must be ready and willing to intervene. Those who would commit the U.S. to nonintervention in the midst of the struggle against Communism might well ponder some lines that Philosopher John Stuart Mill, author of the famous tract On Liberty, wrote more than a hundred years ago: "The doctrine of nonintervention, to be a legitimate principle of morality, must be accepted by all governments. The despots must consent to be bound by it as well...
Kennedy approaches golf with enthusiasm but without dedication. He plays swiftly, rarely pausing to ponder a shot. He almost never completes a full 18-hole round, generally packing up his clubs after 9 or 11. Much of his pleasure comes from wagering on himself. "He'll bet only a dollar or two," says Crooner Bing Crosby, an able golfer and a recent Kennedy opponent at Palm Beach. "But an awful lot of negotiation goes on before the clubs start swinging. He works out the best possible arrangement before he makes a move." Between shots, Kennedy normally appears carefree, needling...
Whether this activity will be enough to cut or stall the Communist offensive is something that General Weller and his chief, Admiral Felt, will have to ponder. Soviet supply lines bring 45 tons of materiel into the Pathet Lao armies every day: Gorky trucks, armored cars, assault rifles, carbines, light and heavy machine guns, 105 howitzers, long-barreled...
...note that your book reviewer (Story for Icarus) and the Culver illustrator like their Minotaur with a human body and a bull-like head. How come? Ovid, of course, is evasive, but old Bulfinch (ponder the possibilities in that name!) tells it just the other way around. A minor existential choice, perhaps, but not, indeed, without its psychological implications...
...arms race goes on as it has, we are left to ponder not if, but when, a nuclear war will occur. Our choice is between great change and great ruin. In order to survive we have either to avert an attack or to shield ourselves from its effects. Since anti-missile defense does not exist, protection means going underground in shelters. Secret reports to the President have urged this sort of "passive defense;" a well-known atomic scientist recommends it on television; and Herman Kahn has recently dedicated a book to the idea...