Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatred of the 'imperialist' Americans, which they never had to do against the French. The way they keep up spirits is to claim they have shot down hundreds of American planes. But the planes keep coming over in increasing numbers, which must make the North Vietnamese peasant wonder...
...Grinding Bind. At the same time, Ho is experiencing ever greater factionalism within his own Lao Dong Party. Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh and Party Secretary Le Duan tug toward Peking, while Defense Minister Giap and Premier Pham Van Dong lean toward Moscow. This leads many observers to wonder if Ho has real control over his country. Actually, Ho is too supple to be drawn into murderous internecine party battle. He remains above the raging policy debates; then when the contestants are weary and the options laid out, he tips the scales with his own view...
...jobs as operating automatic elevators and opening and closing doors in government buildings. As a result, the government has 75,000 workers and a payroll of $200 million a year-meaning that one in every six inhabitants is a government employee, with an average wage of $2,666. Little wonder that the Kuwaitis are fighting so fiercely to keep trouble from their garden...
Most readers remain unconvinced. Floundering through turgid translations, they begin to wonder uneasily: is Dante really great-or even interesting...
...with Nobel Prizewinners Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. J.J.R. MacLeod, and Dr. Charles H. Best) of insulin for the treatment of diabetes, who also won world renown for his study of hormones, which regulate the body's metabolic functions, becoming one of the pioneers in the isolation of wonder-working ACTH and cortisone; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in London...