Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from ear to ear at the marvel of it all. Had Reynolds been around for his own funeral services, he surely would have displayed the same amusement and asked the same question: "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing...
...system is not intended to create a brilliant elite. Stanford Researcher Thomas P. Rohlen, who has written a forthcoming book on the subject, says that the marvel of Japanese education lies in "shaping a whole population to a standard inconceivable in the U.S." Also inconceivable in the U.S., however, is the degree of centralization. All standards and textbook approvals, as well as major funding, come from the national government. "Japan is interested in forming a national culture," says Columbia Comparative Education Professor Harold Noah. This is not solely the result of Japan's homogeneity and island isolation. Britain...
...impressive victories at the polls, a steady surge in black voter registration and serious debate about whether a black should run for President in 1984. Replacing the old guard of civil rights activists, black mayors are emerging as a powerful force in national politics and public policy. Black leaders marvel that for the first time in a decade, there is a vibrant sense of momentum in the black community. "Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement," says Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies...
...beat her. "She giving me some cross answer, I did strike her over her left eye such a blow, as the poor wretch did cry out." He beat his servants too. When one of them denied some domestic misdemeanor, Pepys whipped him so hard that he could only marvel "that such a little boy as he could be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain a lie ... So to bed, with my arme very weary...
...credentials. "Do I look like big government?" His appearance as an Albanian Ambassador with Michael Nacht, Associate Professor of Public Policy, was also the hit of the K-School's talent show last month. Winthrop Knowlton, director of the Business and Government Center, voices the general admiration: "I just marvel at the energy with which he can do so much writing and still play such an active role in the workings of the school...