Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winthrop House Lion Rampant has just made its first appearance in nearly ten months, and the quality of the material in the magazine makes one wonder what the editors have been doing all that time...
...wonder. After one look at Sandy, illicit designs dissolve in a scrubbed glow of innocence; an evening with her would leave anyone limp-with laughter. She purports to be 30 in the play, but has trouble looking one-third that ancient...
Pretty Butterfly. At the piano, Monk is clearly tending to business, but once he steps away from it, people begin to wonder. Aside from his hat and the incessant shuffle of his feet, he looks like a perfectly normal neurotic. "Solid!" and "All reet!" are about all he will say in the gravelly sigh that serves as his voice, but his friends attribute great spiritual strength to him. Aware of his power over people, Monk is enormously selfish in the use of it. Passive, poutish moods sweep over him as he shuffles about, looking away, a member of the race...
...says he hates the "mad genius" legend he has lived with for 20 years? though he's beginning to wonder politely about the "genius" part...
...gouged by the champion's thumb and blinded by liniment on Sonny's gloves, managed to hold off the lumbering Liston with no more protection than a stiff left arm. Liston landed ponderous hooks to Clay's body and head but their lack of visible effect made the spectators wonder for the first time whether there was indeed something wrong with the champ. Clay seemed to recover his sight late in the round, but the round was Liston...