Word: dumbfoundedness
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After some 45 years in medicine, Thomas remains a carrier of infectious enthusiasm. "It's the greatest damned entertainment in the world," he says of his work. "It's just plain fun learning some thing that you didn't know . . . There is a real aesthetic experience in...
Schlesinger's running war with the Mexicans started in December, 1977 when Foreign Minister Santiago Roel and Petroleum Chief Diaz Serrano came to Washington to seek approval of an already negotiated deal between their government and U.S. pipeline companies for Mexican natural gas. The tentative agreement would have delivered...
Sunday in November. But folk tradition -New England tradition, at least-considers the first Thanksgiving to have been the conciliation in 1621 between the hungry Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians, who had helped them to grow food. At Memorial Hall, near Plymouth Rock, this week, some 2,000...
Early in the second quarter, it looked like Cuccia would be sacked behind the line of scrimmage, but he escaped and scooted 48 yards past dumbfounded Bruin defenders to Brown's 28-yd. line. The stand-out Californian was injured on the play, suffering a partially separated shoulder, but he...
In August, Chinese Communist Party leaders left China-watchers dumbfounded and Taiwanese leaders baffled when representatives from Taiwan and the PRC took part in an international meeting of physicists. The Tokyo meeting marked the first time in nearly 30 years that Peking had even tacitly accepted Taiwan's existence.