Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder just how many airmen serve as guiding lights for Russia's 300-odd submarines? Our submarine service, like our Marine Corps, is a small, elite corps of specialists who deserve the very best in equipment and leadership that can be given them, and in leadership I include the right to be led by men who have been trained and served in their particular branch of the service...
...ambassador had tried to do himself in with a poisoned cup of tea. The embassy press attache issued a statement calling all the reports "tendentious, mendacious and I don't know what," then clammed up. The gates of the embassy slammed shut, leaving the world outside to wonder when-and if-it would ever see Anatoly Lavrentiev again...
...Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name and most probable profession of my mother's cousin, who, when I last heard, was considered the musical genius of our family. I lost almost my whole family, which was exterminated by the Nazis in Poland. No wonder, then, that I am so eager to hear from a relative of mine, even if he is far away. I fully appreciate the fact that in a country as big as the U.S.A. thousands may bear the same name, but I have a feeling that I am not wrong...
...rheumatologists listened with respect to the U.S.'s Dr. Philip S. Hench, who shared a Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery and application of the wonder hormone cortisone. Granting that cortisone is not the "fountain of life" that many sufferers hoped that it would be, Hench inveighed against too much timidity in the use of the drug, which he said had raised "as many false fears as false hopes." In four years' use at the Mayo Clinic, he said, cortisone has proved effective in more than 50% of the thousands of patients receiving it. Moreover, experience...
That afternoon a startled young actress listened in saucer-eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller, Author Loos herself flew to London to confirm Colette's judgment. "I tried to explain to all of them that I wasn't ready to do a lead," said Audrey in New York last week, "but they didn't agree, and I certainly wasn...