Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Barry Goldwater has been obliterated by the greatest margin of the century, one cannot help wonder, Who were those 25 million people that voted for him? Some may be explained away as life-long party supporters who mark their ballots "Republican" regardless of election, candidate, or issue. But obviously there were others who found something especially appealing about the Senator. Foremost among these were the voters from the tier of Southern states which gave their electoral votes to the Republican candidate; the South clearly bears the mark of identification with Barry Goldwater...
Pound was not the only scientist to wonder about the Principle of Equivalence. In November, 1962, Pound received a letter from V. P. Lyadov of Kazan State University in Russia. Lyadov, who predicted a ten per cent deviation from Einstein's Theory, postulated that acceleration and gravitation are two different things. Pound's new results support Einstein...
...years of Indian sculpture was damnably hard to categorize, and that its frank eroticism dismayed Victorian minds. But today's scholars are drawn to it as surely as bees to an orchid. Indian sculpture in the period from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1500 is a hothouse wonder, an other-worldly idea clad in contemporary curves...
...Walter Jenkins: I wonder how many more unsavory characters are in the Johnson Administration...
...Pentagon felt that all this had got out of hand when left to individual discretion, but its proscription of expense-account lunches along with gifts made many Washingtonians wonder how defense business would be conducted at all. Few officers want to return permanently to taking lunch at the Pentagon's dreary, stand-up snack bars, and neither they nor the lobbyists are likely to revolutionize their lunching habits until there is a test case of the new rule...