Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if Al Capp realizes that his recent action [in marrying Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae] may force millions of red-blooded American boys to get married ? For years, Li'l Abner has been the bachelor's ideal. Now that he is married, only one course of action is open to us. Get hitched. Couldn't there be just one more miracle...
...south, Templer clamped a new curfew and a reduced rice ration on the 4,000 inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...
...winner: Bill Beck, who first tried the headwall at the age of ten, in the amazing time of 4 min. 14 sec. For a wonder, no one broke any bones...
...wonder how many of your readers resorted to aspirin after reading your March 24 article on bafflegab in the Business section. As for myself, may I use Shakespeare's appropriate statement: "I was never so bethump'd with words...
...lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is changed beyond recognition: doctors are far from agreement on the signs of the disease, and some wonder whether they are dealing with two or more diseases...