Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harris defended his proposal in ringing terms: "Magazines by Canadians, for Canadians, telling about Canadians, are an essential thread in the fabric of our national life ... I wonder whether we could contemplate a time when we would not have a Canadian magazine...
...came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut...
...Americans? May the saints preserves us, the Americans again. I wonder what you'll do to me this time," said the Italian farmer with just the trace of a smile on his lips. The busload of pleasantly jabbering tourists had stopped in Viggiano to avoid traversing the southern countryside during the very hottest part of the day. Most of the safari had headed straight for the nearest cafe and the combination of watered red wine and water which the proprietors dearly loved to sell tourists for only 25 times its cost. A few of the more enterprising members...
...five reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. "And we are moving in that direction here. When we were youngsters, we played games because we wanted to, and won because we were the best, not because we expected to receive any extra rewards. Sometimes I wonder whether the average young fellow is as interested in athletics as his father was, whether he is quite as willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary to become great...
...special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...