Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder the Republicans aren't trying to get Pasternak out of Russia and run him for President. He's a natural for them. He has a gift for platitudinous, humanistic twaddle designed for the female and fuzzy-male vote. As for his book, it's a conversation piece or gift for the culture snob...
...wonder if UNESCO will do a much better job, now that they have a $9,000,000 palace to house their 1,080 permanent employees and carry on their operations. U.S. taxpayers, with no voice in the approval or disapproval of the expenditure, have paid a goodly portion of the cost...
Benson has been the victim of a farm-productivity revolution, the combined workings of improved fertilizers, more and bigger farm machinery, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided...
When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not me, I am afraid, and wonder to see myself here rather than there; for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there, now rather than then...
...wonder the Bull could flick his tail at recession. The 1958 market kept climbing, not a bit disturbed by threats of war in Lebanon and Quemoy, and bad corporate news that showed a 30.5% drop in six-month earnings. The new investors were looking at other values. As steel dropped to 47.1% of capacity in April, Bethlehem Steel, the No. 2 producer, failed by 8? to make its 60? first-quarter dividend. But Bethlehem confidently paid the dividend, and the stock climbed 5⅛ points...