Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation and the U.S.'s polite but pointed refusal. Noting that the United Nations Charter already covers Bulganin's proposed treaty points, Ike wrote: "How can we hope that the present situation would be cured merely by repeating those words in a bilateral form? 1 wonder whether again going through a treaty-making procedure at this time, on a bilateral basis only, might indeed work against the cause of peace by creating the illusion that a stroke of a pen had achieved a result which, in fact, can be obtained only by a change of spirit...
...least of the boy-wonder's wonders was his disposition. He could sit at the harpsichord astonishing strangers with his virtuosity and the mature expression of his face-then, suddenly, a favorite cat would come in, and he was off his chair chasing it like any other boy. When he slipped on the floor at Schönbrunn and was helped to his feet by a seven-year-old princess named Marie Antoinette, he thanked her thus: "You are good, and when I grow up I will marry...
...account of himself. His opening program was a dramatic enactment of Dostoevsky's short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Well acted by Canadian John Drainie, it had what TV shows rarely have-an imaginative combination of literate vigor and moral point, plus a quality of probing wonder against which any televiewer could stretch his own mind...
Undergraduates used to wonder as they trudged through a slushy Yard and queued up in freezing regimentation around Memorial Hall, just what it was that made this the Spring Term. At times heretics even suggested that early February was actually the middle of winter. Such skepticism is no longer necessary. Thanks to the Department of Buildings and Grounds it is always spring in the Yard now, even though the green paint may sometimes wear a little thin...
Despite the "wonder drugs," which kill specific kinds of germs, physicians are still handicapped in starting treatment because in many cases they do not know what kind of germ they are fighting. Hence, they do not know which drug to use. If they take a specimen from a patient, e.g., sputum, spinal fluid, they can grow the bacteria from it and eventually identify them, but this takes about a week. In Atlanta, Bacteriologist Max D. Moody of the U.S. Public Health Service described a method for achieving this result within an hour...