Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead I went to the Berkeley Student Union to ponder my predicament. I sat there, confused, a little depressed, considering my options. A smiling, humming, attractive Jewish-looking woman walked in. Eye contact. The ethnicity clicked. She came over, friendly, talkative, from Long Island originally. Small talk, poetry, politics, time passes. Then I received an invitation to dinner--"I live with this big family and we always have lots of people over to dinner...how about...
...Ponder the fact, my sisters, as our flesh today is warmed by this gentle sun shining down on everyone and bringing in flocks of tourists, that this literary novelty of ours is going to sell well...
...good doctor, claimed Roy, had only produced severe depression and two involuntary stretches in a New York psychiatric ward. Last week a six-member jury awarded the $65-a-week clerk $250,000 in compensatory damages and another $100,000 in punitive damages. Hartogs, meanwhile, was left to ponder the possible loss of his medical license and the prospect of a similar suit by another of his former patients...
...STORY WICKER tells of America's prisons adds yet another sorry dimension to the Attica tragedy. The Quakers in the late 1700s had the notion that offenders should be locked alone in cells, day and night, so that, in such awful solitude, they would have nothing to do but ponder their acts, repent and reform. By 1825, New York had begun an entire penal system that combined individual cells and total silence with floggings, hard labor in fields and quarries, undeviating routine, and subsistence level food and shelter. As the first warden of Sing Sing had said, "Reformation...
...control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...