41.   Ms. Gilligan pondered the question, but did not answer it.

42.   Ms. Comfort is choreographically pondering questions about sex roles.

43.   Ms. Rubins cocked her head and blinked, as if she had never before pondered that question.

44.   Once again, Ryan pondered the question of whether he would pitch again.

45.   Only after those words tumble out does he add that he is giving himself until the end of the year to ponder the question.

46.   Pacers president Donnie Walsh leaned back in his chair in his spacious office at Market Square Arena and pondered the question.

47.   Professors at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth were pondering that question this week.

48.   Pondering the question of the Taliban collapse, John Newhouse, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, recalled an old British saying about Afghanistan tribal warlords.

49.   Pondering this question inspired your Uncle Fearless to take a shot at writing the perfect liberal business column.

50.   Putin himself was oblique when he last pondered the question.