Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days gone by, snow was considered beautiful and good. "All the world a wonder white" the poet said, and across the nation farmers, city folk, laborers, and kiddies nodded their heads in agreement...
What the expletive meant, the boy Warren never knew. Last week, six decades later, he could wonder if his grandfather, who was something of a family oracle, might not have been crying a prophecy. In the forum of the U.N. the dragon of Communism snarls and spits and spreads its terror. Destiny, framed by TV, thrust Warren Austin spang before the threatening beast. To millions of U.S. televiewers, at least, he became-more than any other ambassador at Lake Success-the voice, conscience and counsel of the free world...
Mothers of 18 year old boys may wonder why I say this. They should see my daughter's "suitor.' They should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation. Compare him with the veterans, compare him with the married men, compare him with the reservists who will have to go if he is deferred. I speak for other women, I am sure, in saying take this boy, put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...
...Chronicle, which for years had consistently supported old-guard Republicans, was flatly declaring that "the old GOPers haven't had a constructive idea in 20 years. They are afraid to vote against the social program of the Democrats because they think the people want it . . . It is no wonder the people are becoming disgusted with both major parties." The solution: a third party "with a good program" that would push both old parties "into the background...
...featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...