Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if it has ever occurred to Dr. Kinsey that the women who would avoid his survey are the one-third to two-thirds of U.S. women who are frigid and would not willingly admit to such a deficiency...
...year, the coach put in the only Negro player on the squad, and on the first play in which he carried the ball, he ran the length of the field for a touchdown. We haven't had the slightest difficulty among the boys since. Now I wonder what the sociologists would make out of that...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...
...have risen four times over the prewar level to 1951's record $322.9 million and a $16 million net after taxes. Last year sales dropped off slightly to $319 million, and higher break-even costs cut the net to $9,800,000. But President Holloway is banking on wonder metal titanium as his long-range bet to keep Crane expanding...
Jail Bait. In Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Effie Fisher, offered the choice of a $50 fine or 15 days in jail for shooting a squirrel in her back yard, packed her suitcase, told reporters: "I hear they have rats in the jail. I wonder if they'll let me take my rifle with...