Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is wrong with . . . the organization of a committee against Cornmunism? The inconsistency of condemning Stalin's actions and yet sympathizing with his friends and agents in this country . . . makes one wonder if there isn't a little pink mixed in with your printer...
...rate was upped from $8.50. But last week Wall Street's faith in "Telephone" trembled for a moment. When A.T.&T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson asked his stockholders to okay a 10,000,000-share increase in stock (to 45,000,000 shares), traders began to wonder if Telephone could pay that big a dividend on so many additional shares. The stock broke almost 3 points, and the market broke with...
Later, some girls began to wonder. They told their parents, and the parents began wondering too. Why were the nude pictures taken and what would become of them? By midweek, angry parents had swamped the office of President Raymond B. Allen with protests...
...More Wonder. Scully got his start as a flying-saucer expert by association with talented Oilman Silas M. Newton of Denver, who, he says, locates oil deposits by their microwaves (microwaves do not penetrate rock). Through Newton, Scully met a mysterious "Dr. Gee," who does similar feats by detecting "magnetic waves" (which do not exist) with a magnetron (a radio transmitter tube, not a detection device). Flying saucers, says Dr. Gee (quoted by Scully), travel among the planets by magnetism. Their 3½-ft. crewmen have perfect teeth with no cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer...
Like most important U.S. trials, the case of the United States v. Alger Hiss was so fully reported that many surfeited newspaper readers still wonder just what went on in the courtroom. The most convenient and agreeable way to find out is to read A Generation on Trial by Alistair Cooke, brilliant U.S. correspondent of England's Manchester Guardian, himself a U.S. citizen since...