Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read without interest some of the detestable things this man called Stevenson says about the President and the Vice President. I wonder if many, like myself, would vote for him as dogcatcher...
...tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year. So he led his Foreign Affairs Committee in a scissoring, slashing assault...
...cautious about a broad indictment of colonialism. "I sometimes wonder whether these dreams of intimacy with what we regard as the humble and oppressed peoples of the earth do not represent a form of rebellion against the older European peoples ... in order to prove to ourselves the reality of our maturity and the finality of our liberation from the apron strings of old Europe...
...That is what I had in mind." The lion was satisfied. "Does anyone come to complain twice, I wonder...
...mural that Mexico's Diego Rivera painted down the sides and across the bottom of the distribution chamber of Mexico City's Lerma River water system (TIME, June 4, 1951) was a wonder to behold the day it was dedicated almost five years ago. Painted around the water's edge were giant-sized symbols of Mexico's people, their past oppressors and future hopes; beneath the water was an intricate pattern of teeming protoplasmic life. Rivera confidently predicted that his water-washed mural, Water, Origin of Life, painted with a mixture of plastic polystyrene...