Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council decided in the last election that most undecided voters were holed-up near the Harvard Yard. And so, throughout the campaign, there was a constant parade of sound trucks through the Square and down Mass. Avenue. They blared patriotic sentiment and partisan propaganda until some students began to wonder if the democratic process was so wonderful after...
Kwame Nkrumah. the wonder boy of West Africa, rose to fame & fortune by denouncing British imperialism in his booming colony of the Gold Coast. Last week, as Prime Minister of what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving...
...could level against a university. If true, it means that an educational institution is tolerating a dangerous perversion of education. It means that in the name of academic freedom, Harvard permits as members of its faculty, men who are held in academic slavery by a menacing totalitarian ideology. No wonder his charges, broadcast as they were through a nationwide press, have damaged the University's prestige and could cause concern among parents whose children are, or want to be, students here...
...Boston after a triumphant tour of Baltimore. Shielded from publicity by the nom de plume of Irma The Body and an ostrich plume cunningly wrapped about her as a gown, Miss Goodneighbor plys her trade with many giggles and transports of joy. These the censor would call obscene. Little wonder the textile industry is moving southward...
...Driberg is entitled to his views, but I wonder if he really believes that death at the hands of the Nazis is different from death, or slow torture, in some Siberian labor camp. I wonder if (and when) Russia and Red China begin to give real competition to Britain in the tooling, steel and textile market, will Mr. Driberg all of a sudden discover that Communism is also "anti-Christian...