Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African nations, including the more advanced and moderate ones, supported the rebels without even a hint of condemnation for their bestialities. Virtually all these nations echoed the cynical Communist line in denouncing the parachute rescue as "imperialist aggression." When this happened, the sane part of the world could only wonder whether Black Africa can be taken seriously at all, or whether, for the foreseeable future, it is beyond the reach of reason...
...blood pressure and a pulse of 180. We thank God that she is slowly on the way to recovery. And she paid the $1.75 that covered the surgery." Permeating Carlson's letters, and scored in his thin voice on the tape-recorded messages he sent, were a delighted wonder at the oddness of the Congo and a conscious attempt to sound matter-of-fact. He found it strange to be awakened by "the night sentry in tattered pants with a long spear" and asked to aid a child with meningitis. It was oddly lyrical to be "trudging single file...
...House Banking Committee, who went on to predict "a marked slowdown in our economic growth" as a result of the hike. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council complained that the move would discourage borrowing by consumers and business alike. Coming at a time when many businessmen were beginning to wonder aloud whether the U.S.'s 45-month economic upswing could continue much beyond mid-1965, the discount-rate hike also raised fears among many businessmen of a recurrence of 1960, when an economic expansion was pinched off and a recession brought on by a tightening of money...
...skiing right to the back door of the lodge, he concluded, "I've got a lot of hopes for this idea, but it's impossible to say just how big it's going to be. But at least I'll never have to look back and wonder what would have happened because I didn't take the chance while it was there...
...political ambition, he went home three years ago and gave up his U.S. citizenship. Last February, he got himself elected to Parliament and promptly became the top aide to Greece's Premier-who happens to be his father, George Papandreou. Last week the prodigal son had reason to wonder just how Greek the Greeks would allow...