Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one area did there seem to be any disposition to economize. In the Senate, where members apathetically debated the new ECA appropriation, Republicans considered whether foreign aid could be reduced. Noting that Britain in the last six months had "balanced its international budget," Robert Taft said: "I wonder why . . . we should advance anything to the United Kingdom during the following year." But it seemed likely that, after all the talk was over, ECA would get most of the $3.3 billion it asked...
Burly, round-faced Jesse Donaldson, the first career Postmaster General in history, a man who climbed to the Cabinet via mail sorter, letter carrier and pistol-packing post-office inspector, had been regarded around the capital as a man who lacked political experience. Members of Congress were beginning to wonder...
Many Filipinos, still dazed by Senator David's story of the Good Friday massacre and Governor Lingad's admission of Huk gains, began to wonder if the Huks were the greatest danger in the Philippines. Said a Manila storekeeper: "It's a labulabu, a national free-for-all." President Quirino wanted a chance to put his country's affairs in order. Said he: "I want to have the opportunity to clean my own house. If I fail. Congress can impeach me for non-compliance with my duty under the constitution...
...picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
...greater part of the story is concentrated, the climax is too diffuse. Instead of having a three-way plot solution in a single unified scene with Constance, the portrayal of each character reaches a separate culmination in a scene alone with her. The audience is left to wonder which of the three scenes is the more climatic and to speculate on the relations that the three solutions will have on each other...