Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly Willing. Conceivably, all they talked about was Viet Nam and the fishing on the Black Sea. But it was hardly surprising that some of the chair swivelers in the chancelleries of Europe began to wonder if another Washington-Moscow disarmament deal was in the works. After all, for months the Russians had been insisting that they would never come back to the Geneva table so long as the war in Viet Nam continued. Now they suddenly seemed only too willing to rejoin the disarmament talks...
...wonder if there have been any discussions of a successor to Adlai Stevenson?" a newsman asked bluntly just 24 hours after Stevenson's sudden death. Had George Reedy still been White House Press Secretary, such a query would have probably drawn a curt "No comment"-plus a suggestion, perhaps, that it was indelicate in its timing. But Bill Moyers, only a week in the job, took a puff on a slim cigar and answered evenly that the President had already talked over possible replacements with his staff and would not fill the post until after the funeral services...
...Billy Taylor Jr. and Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., learn italic handwriting with "John-John" Kennedy. In addition, parents are expected to chip in handsomely on the annual fund drives, from which private schools get 20% of their income. The cost of all this leads one school principal to wonder: "I honestly don't know what some families plan to live...
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is an everlasting wonder of the scientific world. His father was a blacksmith, and his education was limited to attendance at Sunday school, but in a lifetime of intellectual labor he transformed himself, most professionals agree, into the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived. He induced the first electric current, developed the first dynamo and with it the possibility of electric power, created the science of electrochemistry and with it a primary implement of modern industry, blasted the first big breach in the Newtonian universe and laid down the foundations of both classical and contemporary field...
Despite such horror stories, the book's effect is reassuring. Once a week, at 7:15 in the morning, the hospital staff convenes for a no-holds-barred critique of its own performance. "I wonder how many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...