Word: mull
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sales so much that K-F had to cut production from 1,600 to 800 cars a day, would soon have to drop to 600. RFC offered Henry $25 million, and asked for stringent collateral. Henry, who hopes that defense orders will soon bail his company out, decided to mull it over...
Were enough young Americans being properly trained for the overseas careers in business and government that would be open after World War II? The prominent citizens who met, one day in 1943, to mull that question over decided the answer was no. So the notables-including onetime Ambassador Joseph Grew, Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, the Commerce Department's Will Clayton and Congressman Christian Herter of Massachusetts-agreed to start a graduate school of their own. That was the beginning of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and its School of Advanced International Studies...
...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...
With the outbreak of each of the great wars, students felt they should get together and mull over the pressing issues of the day. It was not long before the interested parties found they disagreed, often fundamentally; whereupon the one basic organization split into up to ten subgroups, which enjoyed brief lives and then expired...
...Eastern policy settled down leisurely for three days in Bangkok. To Siam's templed capital came America's top foreign-service officers from stations throughout the Orient. They had been summoned by roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup and Assistant Secretary of State W. Walton Butterworth to mull over a program that might check the southerly flow of Communism at China's borders...