Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...level delegation from Switzerland-which donated 2% of the tunnel's cost-to take part in its inauguration. He even denied the Swiss access to the tunnel, the only link between the ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the French side and the speeches on the Italian. Small wonder that one passionate European Federalist in the audience found the session disturbing enough to break through police lines and fling an envelope toward De Gaulle. As Italian carabinieri hauled him brusquely away, De Gaulle opened the envelope. Inside was a politely worded plea to both Presidents on behalf of European unity...
...wonder who the hell you're kidding...
This means, however, that the rest of the world is running short of dollar reserves. Many Europeans have complained that the U.S. flooded their economies with dollars and bought up too much of their industries; but now that the dollars are being brought back home, they wonder what they can use for a trading currency. British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, among others, warns that the present shortage may constrict international trade, upon which much of the world's economic growth depends...
...speaker's chair-and the $55,000-a-year expense account that goes with it. Before the dust cleared, 18 other assemblymen, all Liberal Democrats, had followed Koyama into jail, and a storm of public outrage forced the assembly to dissolve itself in shame. Little wonder that a nationwide public opinion poll late last month showed Sato's popularity at an alltime low for a Japanese Premier: 24.4% v. 49.9% when he took office in November...
...classics-oriented Gymnasium and on to the university; the rest attend the Mittelschule or the less exacting Volkschule, both roughly equivalent to American junior high schools. Currently, less than 7% of German youths enter the Gymnasium; in France, by comparison, almost 13% attend the equivalent lycée. Many wonder whether so small a number of high-level graduates can provide the intellectual skills to keep Germany's vaunted "economic miracle...