Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order, U.C.L.A. rolled over San Francisco to prove that it was the best in the West. Michigan paid its way to the N.C.A.A. finals in Portland, Ore., with an 87-85 victory over Vanderbilt. And out of the East roared the Tigers, embarrassing Providence 109-69. Fans began to wonder: Could Princeton...
...Johnson at his Rose Garden press conference. Added the President: "A great friend of mine who had great responsibilities for a long period of military and executive life in our Government"-Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps?-"said to me the other day, 'When I see the suggestions about negotiations, I wonder if folks don't recognize that there must be someone to negotiate with, and there must be someone willing to negotiate...
...climactic staircase scene, a horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls, eyeballs and quivering flesh. By the time she rumbles to a stop, audiences may justly wonder which apparition is scarier-Bette at the bottom or that Thing up top with the muddy feet...
...past, the Program has graduated many dissatisfied students, but it has rarely produced apathetic or quietly disgusted ones. When someone complains that he has learned nothing from the Program and proceeds to detail a better reading list for each year's tutorial, one begins to wonder why other departments are not turning out equally "dissatisfied" scholars...
...Princeton graduate (cum laude, '41), conventionally handsome, inwardly tense and outwardly relaxed, he was the boy wonder who stepped into his job five years ago and played the complex, competitive, split-timing game of network programming with such relentless drive and consummate skill that by last year eight of the top ten Nielsen-rated night shows bore CBS's eyeprint, as did all ten of the top daytime entries...