Word: ponderousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez withdrew to greet several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...many responsible citizens who happen to be sportsmen and gun owners [June 21]. I have seen firearms used for good (yes, even against fellow man), as well as for evil; but I have not as yet laid blame (or credit) to the gun. It is interesting to ponder if the emotion of the moment will bring on a joust with windmills, and whether the result will provide a catharsis for the guilt complex of a nation in turmoil...
...this day, like others, we ponder...
...pulsar specialists, scientists from the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona and the Lick Observatory in California disclosed that Pulsar I not only sends out high-frequency radio signals every 1.3 seconds, but also gives off light flashes just about half as often. The conferees were beginning to ponder this new information when a tardy University of California astronomer, David Cudaback, still bleary-eyed from long nights at the Lick Observatory, arrived with word that the light flashes are inexplicably irregular: they speed up or slow down by as much...
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