Word: wonder
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...dental chairs. This program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...
Arthur Godfrey, for this reason, became a minor czar of the TV world, because--in the words of one advertising executive--"He can sell 'em anything." The biggest hit song this year is "You'll wonder where the yellow went...
...basic stability of consumers' prices. In West Germany the cost-of-living index was up a modest 16 points from 1950 levels. This truncated republic, about half the size of the old German Reich and with about three-quarters of its population (53 million), looms as the economic wonder of the democratic West. The Germans' own astonishing energy and some $5 billion in timely U.S. aid have wrought their great part in what is universally hailed as "the German miracle." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has created the indispensable moral atmosphere of democratic order and political responsibility. But the philosopher...
...unobjectionable debtor's morale and the unfailing respect for foreign rights." He cited the refusal of some nations at the recent Organization of American States conference (TIME, Aug. 26) to grant compensation in case of expropriation of foreign assets as an example of the attitude that "makes one wonder whether this strange attitude will not have serious consequences for the countries in question...
Large stretches of The Makioka Sisters are dull enough to make U.S. readers wonder if they are not in the hands of the Japanese sandman. Yet Junichiro Tanizaki, 71, is one of Japan's leading novelists, and this book, written a decade ago, is a neat compendium of what is best and worst in contemporary Japanese writing. Esoteric discussions of Tokyo v. Osaka folkways lead imperceptibly to the dramatic outer and inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never...