Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using the term "burrocracy," in TIME'S Oct. 8 article on Bill Boyle, I wonder if you noticed also the fitness of "burr-ocracy...
Streptomycin quickly proved its value against many forms of tuberculosis, but one of the deadliest held out against the wonder drug: tuberculous meningitis. A particular enemy of children (its bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal column), tuberculous meningitis used to mean swift and almost certain death; the few survivors were hopelessly crippled. Now, the U.S. Public Health Service reports, the death rate has been cut almost in half, and the damage to survivors greatly reduced...
Loneliness of Evening and My Girl Back Home (Mary Martin; Columbia). A pair of wistful ballads that Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't consider quite bright enough for South Pacific. With Mary Martin singing them, lots of people will wonder how they could have been left...
...Well" uses a new twist. This time a Negro girl disappears and suspicion points to a white man. There are immediate rumors that she has been attacked, but that the man will get off easy because of his color and connections in the town. Meanwhile, the whites wonder what "the niggers are trumping up" and when someone is accidentally knocked down on the street, rumors spread that he was attacked by a group of Negroes. At this point "The Well's" tempo speeds up with flash shots of excited crowds in different parts of the city. It isn't long...
...little wonder that he finds it a town of "hustlers," "still an outlaw's capital." He has tied his own feelings about the city, a number of interesting anecdotes, and his violent emotional approach into a very readable, even fascinating essay with the string of brilliant and sharp description. He has paced his essay at high speed, with an intense, perceptible rhythm some may find too metallic...