Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal income-just a clink and tinkle below the alltime high of $211.9 billion in 1948. Landlords, merchants, and other unincorporated businessmen made 9.5% less than they had the year before. But pay envelopes ($133.5 billion), dividends and interest payments were even higher. Only the farmers had cause to wonder if there were holes in their pockets: the nation's agricultural income of $18.4 billion was down 20% from 1948's $23.1 billion...
...residents of Neuilly and the Bois, like the concierge at the little fat one's own apartment, shook their heads in wonder ment. "He was such a man of the world," said the shattered concierge. "He had no vice except Benedictine liqueur, which he drank by the bottle...
...wonder," he said, turning to the leftist benches, "if it's really true that such massacres occur because there is a 'black priest-ridden government?' Surely you cannot deny that many men were told to go into Modena who had no legitimate business there . . ." The chamber exploded with cheers and boos. Togliatti cast aside his blue-serge-suit respectability, leaped to his feet, bellowed "Liar!" Other Communists surged up crying "Murderer! Assassin...
...think my wonder mad and jail...
Laureate v. Literature. Yet almost from the publication of his first work, Britain's readers, critics and publishers alike proved more than willing to pay in praise and coin for the privilege of sharing his wonder. In 1930, after the publication of more than half a hundred volumes of his poems, short stories, biographical and historical studies, novels and plays, King George V crowned the onetime sailorman's efforts with the well-meant accolade of the laureateship...