Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Helms' friends credit him with shrewdness and moxie, they marvel that anyone so -- well, ordinary -- should be where he is. Even Dorothy Helms, the Senator's wife of 46 years, is puzzled: "To me, he's just little Jesse Helms that I married however many years ago. He's a very simple person. He just believes certain things, and he acts on them, and that's it." They met when both were working at the Raleigh News and Observer, she as editor of the society page, he as a sports reporter. They have raised two daughters...
...Black Americans and opponents of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, Bush vowed: "I'm going to stand with the President." Bush thinks he can woo Blacks by hinting that he'll publicly support their civil rights sometime after November. When he loses to Mike Dukakis, he's going to marvel about why less than 5 percent of Black voters publicly supported...
Although Superman's adventures were a fairly crude story, fairly crudely illustrated, their overnight success not only earned millions but also created shoals of imitators, such as Batman, Captain Marvel, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. "Oddly enough," says Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, "the Depression enlivened the American dream that anyone could make it, and that's what Superman did. I loved the fantasy of this guy who had all this strength. While Superman went around beating up crooks, in my dreams I was beating up authority figures...
...Brown basketball team's tenacious play in the final 10 minutes and a jumper by guard Dick Whitmore with two seconds remaining pushed the Bruins past Harvard. 103-101, in overtime Saturday at Marvel Gym in front of 1138 spectators...
PROVIDENCE-Harvard Coach Pete Roby was not a happy man after Saturday night's loss to Brown here at Marvel...