Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next year U.S. farmers-barring a bad crop-will face the same problem of overabundance, for the wheat, acreage will be the same. Now was a good time for them to ponder advice given since Farmer George Washington's time: get away from the one-crop system...
That the British met disaster in Libya, and in the first stages of the battle for Egypt, was something for the U.S. to ponder prayerfully: the U.S. Army has yet to meet and beat the German Army in World War II. And, for British and U.S. military men alike, Libya and Matrûh held many a lesson...
...hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive...
Litvinoff, six months out of Russia, knew his nation was still confident, as it had been even when the Nazis battered at Moscow's gates and the whole world thought Russia crushed He could ponder Joseph Stalin's new order of the day to the Russian Army (see p. 26), loaded with assurance that Russia had grown stronger, Germany weaker...
...Delhi, Brereton deposited Baby with Lloyds Bank, took one drink, put his gun in a desk drawer, and paused to ponder his asset: the cash; faith in Washington; faith in his own judgment that a mighty air striking force could be amassed in India. A few days later, 17 officers and men followed him to India in a PBY flying boat. They were the nucleus of his staff...