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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas gush out in a torrent that overwhelms friends. His talk ranges from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused by lifelong asthma. He is too intelligent for me," his brilliant old friend, André Gide, once confessed in admiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man's Quest | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Planes Across the River. By 3 p.m. the battle of Buenos Aires seemed over. Gawkers gathered in the battered plaza. Between announcements that Perón was victorious and the nation tranquil, a radio station inanely played a record of an old George Gershwin song. Somebody Loves Me, I Wonder Who? Suddenly, rebel airmen struck again. Planes swept across the plaza, dropping bombs and raking soldiers and civilians with machine-gun fire. Hundreds more were killed or wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Revolt of Noon | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...victory. The argument was incidental. Everyone was talking about Anderson. He had grown too monstrous to make much of a showing in "Mr. America" contests, but to Muscovites, who no longer differentiate between amateur and professional, athlete and show man, Paul Anderson was chudo prirody (a wonder of nature). He was indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moscow Marvel | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...York Times Labor Analyst A. H. Raskin: European unionists, reared in the Socialist tradition, always wonder why United States labor is so enthusiastic about a competitive economic system. The settlement at Ford should help supply the answer. The principal factor in Ford's decision was its desire to stay out in front in the race for mastery of the low-price automobile field. Reuther avoided the slogans of class warfare that were so much a part of the union's formative years two decades ago. The company was equally careful not to maneuver itself into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...phenomenal success in Ontario inevitably caused Tory Party chiefs to wonder about Frost as a potential leader for the wilderness-wandering national Tory Party, which has lost every major election since 1935. Frost has always rejected the suggestion, stoutly disclaiming any ambition to challenge the Liberals in the national political arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Tory Landslide | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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