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Word: ponderously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bonjour La, Bonjour leaves you to ponder Tremblay's attitude towards incest. It may not be right, he suggests, but incestuous love beats normal emptiness. Consider this challenge to the most ingrained prohibition in society, then consider that Eliot House is showing this play for free. There's nothing to lose but your prejudice...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: A Family Affair | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...British ceremonies." But the antidevolution forces, led by the Conservative Party, mounted a late-blooming campaign that focused on an even more basic Scottish instinct: they charged that the cost of home rule would be quickly felt in the form of higher taxes. Some Scots also began to ponder the fact that devolution might lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, which none but the most extreme nationalists want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Devolution Off | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Fang now must ponder China's plan to develop modern technology. This, as expressed by his Academy of Sciences predecessor, Kuo Mojo, will be "a magnumopus" which will "not be written on limited reams of paper but in the universe that knows no bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Virtually Everything Needs to Be Done | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Administration aides bristled when asked if Ball was in fact working on a blueprint for a "post-Shah Iran," but that surely was part of his assignment. Another part: to ponder the impact of Iran's instability on nearby Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials are exceedingly worried about the vulnerability of this sparsely populated, semifeudal monarchy, which possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves (150 billion bbl.). Admits one Administration official: "It gives me the willies just thinking about Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Weekend of Crisis | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...next year before a vote can be held to fill Meluskey's seat. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania politicians have something to ponder. The cause of Meluskey's death: heart failure, possibly triggered, said a Dade County, Fla., medical examiner, by the stress of campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deadlock | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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