Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many cups of tea, describing British stubbornness, U.S. sympathy, Egyptian friendship. He and Premier Nahas Pasha had gotten to be real buddies on his visit to Egypt. The Shah next day had one word to describe the session: "Exhausting." But 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, no longer the fainting wonder, was full of beans...
...wrote Edward Winslow, from the Pilgrim colony at New Plymouth on the first Thanksgiving in 1621. This week, prosperous and powerful beyond Pilgrim Winslow's wildest fancies, the U.S. could give thanks-and wonder whether it had not too much to be thankful...
These stories whetted the interest of California Democrat Cecil R. King, chairman of a House subcommittee investigating tax irregularities. The committee had already begun to wonder "why so many tax-fraud cases recommended for prosecution by special agents had been dropped. A number of witnesses, including Caudle, were called before closed sessions. Then Harry Truman got a telephone fill-in on the case from Congressman King. Last week from Key West, Truman's office announced that Caudle had resigned "by request of the President . . . because Mr. Caudle was engaged in outside activities . . . incompatible with the duties of his office...
...farewell appearance in the U.S., Premier Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend...
Today, 78-year-old Colette's innumerable admirers (most of whom would agree with Glenway Wescott that she is "the greatest living French fiction writer") wonder how on earth their "national great lady" ever bowed to such servitude. Colette herself, now a distinguished member of the French Academy, wonders too. True, she says, Willy actually kepi her under lock & key. But why did she not escape by the window? Was it because he always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy...