Word: reflecting
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Harlan J. Bushfield, 60, South Dakota, a conservative machine politician who once proposed a "National Debt Week" for citizens to reflect on New Deal spending, hoped in 1940 to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. As Governor since 1939, hulking Harlan Bushfield has been noted chiefly for his economies...
...Wherever I look," he said, "I see men quarreling in the name of religion -Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaish-navas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call...
These two books reflect the fact that U.S. readers have at last caught up with the continental statesmanship of Lincoln's and Johnson's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, who forced the purchase of Alaska ("Seward's Icebox'') amid the catcalls of the isolationists of 1867. The Japanese in the Aleutians and the new global geography have made the U.S. suddenly conscious that Alaska is nearer Seattle (as a plane flies) than Seattle is near Los Angeles...
...There was, for one, the consideration that as a forthright critic of Churchill's war prosecution he has for two years served as whipping boy for the Prime Minister's parliamentary tempers, receiving rebukes distinguished for their sting, even in the House of Commons. He could also reflect that it is nearly three years since he held Government office, and that the British people are looking for new leaders. He could reflect that, like the great Cardinal Wolsey in 1530, he arrived at the Abbey stripped of political grandeur, begging: "Of your charity, spare me a piece...
Stocky, quick-gaited Major General Barton K. Yount, flying up & down the country last week on his whirlwind inspections of Army air schools, had little time to reflect that he had become president of the biggest university in the world. He was too busy examining, asking questions, criticizing, improving, and racing...