Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if you realize what the televising of the Kefauver Crime Committee hearings has done for the American people...
Seeing pictures of your President taken during his visit to Florida [and] meditating upon the fact that you have only one living ex-President ... I wonder why the people of the U.S., out of ordinary humanity towards men elected to such high office, do not choose to have either a King or a Prime Minister...
...weekly press conference next day, newsmen were hipped on somewhat the same subject. The President's grin vanished with the first searing question. "I wonder," said a reporter, "whether you'd care to comment on the testimony by former Mayor O'Dwyer that he appointed to office friends and relatives of gangsters?" The President said coldly that he had no comment. "Is any change contemplated in his status as ambassador?" Harry Truman shot back a crackling...
...citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...
...country parson's cross is heavy with their apathy, and sharp with their hate. He sees his failure round him every day. Only the very few help him to bear it. Small wonder if sometimes he fails...