Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose . . . [Speaking at Little Rock, Ark.-TIME, March 31]." No wonder it sounds oldfashioned. It's a rehash of an address to veterans of the Rainbow Division at a reunion in Washington in 1935. See Rovere and Schlesinger, The General and the President, page...
Whisky Parlay. The taxpayer, Hyman Harvey Klein of Los Angeles, was revealed as another of the financial wonder workers who are turning up in Washington these days. Klein testified that in 2½ years he parlayed a $1,000 investment into a $5,000,000 profit, through a brisk import business in Canadian whisky. His troubles began in 1946 when the Government charged him with black-markeeering and tax fraud. In 1948, the BIR, afraid that he would skip the country, slapped a $7,000,000 tax lien on his assets...
...piped water supply; favelados lug pump water up the hill by the bucketful. A hair-curling stench rises from the shallow ditches that serve the settlement as sewers. "We have a great time watching these human anthills," said an apartment dweller recently, "but they watch us too. Sometimes we wonder what they're thinking." In his voice was an undertone of fear...
...Kluckhohn said that the role of women in society is a major topic of contemporary interest, and that people wonder whether they are happy or contented. Most writers, she said, think they are neither...
...What a Life!" Truman has never escaped a sort of schoolboy wonder at being President, and he expresses his wonder in schoolboy terms. Here is a diary entry...