Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Step. Rusk led off. Some people, he said quietly, might wonder why three successive U.S. Administrations have exerted so much effort trying to reach a nuclear test ban agreement, even while accumulating stockpiles of nuclear weapons. "The answer," said Rusk, "lies at the heart of the dilemma which troubles our world. The values that are the heritage of a free society have been menaced by a Communist bloc armed with the most modern weapons and intent on world domination...
...Brooklyn thugs died as bullets sprayed their cars in two separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia; the other was an ex-Gallo hoodlum who had deserted to a rival Brooklyn gang. Little wonder that many a mobster was muttering "Cosa Nostra si sta rompendo" (Our Thing is breaking...
...stone-fast monasteries, ability to paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...wonder Steve Karmen, a folksong satirist, draws guffaws in Holly-woBd- with his recording of a not very funny take-off on Gimme Dat Ol'-Time Religion...
...with the Cambridge student population, and for older members of the Seminar who have acquaintances here, filling spare time is no problem. The seminar members from Ireland, Brian MacMahon and Denis O'Sullivan, have met relatives, friends, and friends of friends in predominately Irish Boston and must occasionally wonder if they have ever really left home...