Word: marvel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew—how wonderful she was, how much she’ll be missed. Ceaselessly energetic even late into her sixties, she played basketball until weeks before her death, so there’s the local basketball coach, flushed and upset. A fleet of local librarians arrives to marvel at her ravenous appetite for and absorption of world literature. There are many as ashen and bereft as we, all of us who knew her; and there were distant family, polite co-workers, high school acquaintances. Hundreds upon hundreds come...
...spears. The next time Mars and Earth brush past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species, or (more optimistically) human colonists will be able to look down from the Martian surface at a prominent blue Earth and marvel at how humankind finally managed to conquer its inner gods of war. ANTHONY SALM Keizer...
...trains as usual, and the stock market soared to a 29-month high. The newspapers all but ignored the 52 people killed and 175 injured when a pair of five-kilogram suitcases packed with explosives detonated in the trunks of separate taxis in southern Bombay. They chose instead to marvel at the city's indomitable resilience. MUMBAI BOUNCES BACK, BUSINESS AS USUAL, trumpeted the Hindustan Times. "Bloody Monday has already become another tale to tell your grandchildren...
Americans struggling to find work, get a decent pay raise or buy a home must marvel at the peculiar worries of Bill Gross. A legendary investor, Gross runs the $76 billion Pimco Total Return bond fund. In recent weeks he has sold $6 billion in Treasury bonds, activity that has contributed to a sharp rise in mortgage interest rates. Gross, though, is more concerned about bad things that might happen in the future, not what's happening now. "Two or three years down the road," he says, "inflation might be a real pressure cooker...
...arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses and wildflowers...