Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boudreau had been a Cleveland pet ever since he joined the Indians as a shortstop in 1939. In 1942 he became the "boy wonder" manager (at 24). Lacking speed afoot (his nickname is "Old Shufflefoot"), Lou made up for his slowness by getting a fast jump on the ball and by developing an almost uncanny knack of knowing where opposing batters were most likely...
...American people are beginning to wonder whether Germany really prefers freedom to oppression when they read such statements as these recently made here-that 'the German people are being misused by Occupation Powers' and 'we prefer healthy people bolshevized in undamaged houses rather than cripples in foxholes...
Like many another postwar Frenchman, Jean Paul David used to read his daily newspaper with skepticism, listen to his radio without confidence, and wonder with suspicion what the Communists were going to ask him to believe next. A husky, energetic Radical Socialist deputy, David resented Communist abuse of truth, decided to do something about...
Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...
...Whitman Wonder...