Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a sad commentary on our American culture your report on women is [Nov. 22]! It's no wonder that we educators see so many unhappy, anxious, insecure children in our schools. Their mothers are outside of their homes involved in "the search for something more challenging." If these women had any spiritual values, they would thank God that they are blessed with husbands and children and devote their talents and energies to fulfilling their roles willingly, lovingly and efficiently...
Barry felt beleaguered. "Sometimes, he said, "I wonder why we ought to even bother with an announcement. If we say I'm going to run, everybody will just say that's no news. Rockefeller's announcement sure fell with a thud. And if I say I'm not going to run, I d better get out of the country first...
...orderly and peaceful world. But between hope and achievement lie hosts of obstacles. Though the court was organized to settle disputes between nations, it has no police to enforce its decisions; it cannot even hear a case unless both parties to the quarrel admit its jurisdiction. The wonder is not that it has settled so few arguments, but that in its 18 years it has handed down 13 decisions that have stuck...
...Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter or his wastebasket...
...cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...