Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro soldier over here in Korea, I sometimes wonder just what am I really fighting for when I read about such riots as those that occurred in Cicero and other American communities...
...freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear...
Aware of their ticklish position deep in Communist territory, students of the Free University sometimes wonder if their alma mater will be permitted to grow old enough for traditions of its own. Their worry is understandable, but their rector, Hans Freiherr von Kress, a professor of medicine, is letting it interfere with none of his plans. With their new finances, he and his staff are counting on a new building to include lecture halls, a desperately needed central library, and a student dining room. They are going to organize the first adult education program ever attempted in Germany...
...vigorous sage (who had just lost a son) shouting defiantly to the winds: "There is no death, there is no death!" But with Chekhov, Bunin was more of an intimate contemporary. They conducted the sort of dialogue that used to make men of other nations scratch their heads in wonder at the odd Russian mind. "Do you like the sea?" Bunin asked. "Yes," said Chekhov. "Only it's so empty...
...pictures testify to Gromaire's neck-cricking wonder at the upward thrust of the skyscrapers. One of the best catches the silhouette of an old landmark, Trinity Church, against the spectacular escarpments of Wall Street. Says Gromaire: "Now I am completely exhausted, like a mother after childbirth. If you asked me to paint just one more picture about America, I couldn't do it." As for living and working in Manhattan, Gromaire shakes his head. "New York is astonishing, but so are the Himalayas. I wouldn't like to spend the rest of my life...