Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of confidence in herself, Althea Gibson, the first Negro to crash big-time tennis, has only hovered on the edge of greatness. Last week, day after day, crowds of 20,000 packed the stadium at Wimbledon, England to see if Hoad could still lick the world, and to wonder if Althea was really anything more than a strong-armed also...
...Knorke, but she does not quite think of him as a baby. "He is a young gorilla patient," she says simply. She is well aware that she cannot baby him indefinitely. In ten years or so he will stand six feet tall and weigh around 400 lbs. "I wonder," she speculates, "if I can play with him then...
...their bimonthly paychecks. Few cash registers jingled in town: for Tuskegee's white merchants it was the worst "payroll Wednesday" in years. At week's end tight-lipped shopkeepers admitted that the boycott was about 90% effective among the Negroes, and many merchants were grimly beginning to wonder how long they could hold...
...vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, director of its medical-sciences division (1930-51), and world leader in public health; after long illness; in Big Sur, Calif. Dr. Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...
This control is not always easy. "These children have been deprived of the most basic primitive need, care, and because they need you so badly their reactions to you at first range from anything from bewildered wonder to anger," Mrs. Cox explained, "and the volunteer must be prepared to face the unavoidable frustrations that arise from these actions...