Word: mulling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...President-elect Ronald Reagan finally began to fill his administration with Harvard graduates in five of his eight announced Cabinet-level posts--University faculty members aiding the transition operation continued to write memos and mull over job offers...
...very good. Whenever he approves of a building, the business does well in it. I don't understand it, but I do believe it. He can tell by looking at the layout of a place how the business will be." We drive for a little while as I mull over this statement of conviction...
...will be several miniature oohs at the smaller bronzes and the medallions and the three ears of wheat fashioned in gold, life-size and perfect (used as a funerary offering). But the main effect of the show will come after it has left the eyes and visitors begin to mull over the enormity of what is implied here. Most exhibitions create silence. This one should cause insistent talk. How else should we respond to a man who was once the world...
...need not mull over the so-called friendship with France. In foreign policy the only motivation is national interest, not altruism or friendship. French aid in the Revolution, much propagandized in filiopietistic textbooks and parroted by our press, was in the best interests of a France set on vengeance against England...
...awkward at times. He must be the wimp and the hero at once, a difficult role for any actor, and a task just beyond Makepeace's grasp. But Baldwin and Matt Dillon, as big bully Melvin Moody, are superb in roles no less difficult. As for the adults, Martin Mull and John Houseman appear fleetingly, and Ruth Gordon sticks to her tried-and-true role as a sex-hungry...