Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...
Food comes to mind as a metaphor because of the character Algernon's good-natured gluttony. While he and his friend Jack ponder the mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly...
...costs, eliminate marginal performers, and change the leadership of the agency. Among those who have gone are several of the long-entrenched top deputies of former CIA Director Richard Helms, who tended to favor the "operational men," or spies in the field, over the cerebral analysts, who ponder the intelligence and make policy recommendations. These two sides of the agency, traditionally separated, have orders to cooperate more...
...shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement. Congressional Democrats fretted that the U.S. was about to bog down in still another quagmire...
...three months the U.S. has gone without an official chief thinker of the unthinkable, the man who must ponder U.S. strategies for averting nuclear destruction. Gerard C. Smith resigned last January as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) after negotiating the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The result was a treaty sharply limiting defensive anti-ballistic missile sites and an interim agreement freezing offensive missiles at roughly current levels for the next five years. To take Smith's place, President Nixon last week named Fred C. Iklé (pronounced ee-CLAY...