Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climate in which private enterprise is actively encouraged. As a result, Mexicans have taken their money from Swiss and U.S. banks and invested it at home; savings accounts have doubled in three years; and last year foreign investment soared at the rate of $2,275,000 a week. No wonder: profits on investment range from...
...arms wildly and shrieks "criminali" and "bastardi" at other drivers. He plays Roman roulette, which means hurtling into an intersection without looking to left or right. The one thing he likes better than passing a whole row of cars is passing the car that is passing them. No wonder that Americans arriving at the military base at Naples are prudently taught "defensive driving...
...Democratic National Convention, the networks achieved the impossible. In their frenetic scramble to make the trivial significant and the significant momentous, they succeeded in making the convention seem even duller than dull reality. It was no wonder that, on the climactic night of the nominations, nearly half of all New York City viewers were glued to independent stations offering such attractions as a rerun of an Untouchables episode, a rerun of a Marilyn Monroe documentary, and a rerun of a movie space opera called The Brain from Planet Arous...
...both the Free Press and the city's other paper, the evening News, the presses ground to a stop-silenced by Detroit's ninth newspaper strike since 1955. By last week, as the strike entered its seventh week, all Detroit was beginning to wonder whether "Smoky" Frazee could ever be talked back into his pressman...
...State of Grace. Since 1939, when Powell first soared to prominence as a 15-year-old boy wonder, his entire career has been a long, tense battle with drink, drugs and derangement. He sat in at the birth of bop at Minton's Playhouse in New York, toured with Cootie Williams' Orchestra. Then in 1945 he suffered the first of a series of breakdowns that have kept him in and out of mental hospitals ever since. He formed his own trio in 1949 and was soon the dominant pianist in jazz and the idol of a generation...