Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Action Group has ended its effective patronage campaign against the Wonder Bread Company. "The bakery is shown its good faith by employing negroes in its sales department and by supporting to the Group on its policy of continued adherence to fair employment practices." Noel Day, BAG spokesman, said yesterday...
Foreign aid administrators are ephemeral as the light of fireflies in the dark. There have been ten of them in nine years, and it is hard not to wonder if David Bell, the newest director of the Agency for International Development (A.I.D.), wishes fondly for the safety of his old office back at Littauer. Quietly, for self-assertion is a dangerous quality in his position, Mr. Bell has in the last three weeks seen his program transferred to the hands of pure caprice. Both he and the President have ceased to exercise any control over the appropriation of foreign...
...migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent...
...miles through Upper Egypt with General Desaix. lagging dangerously behind the army to sketch the ruins at Abydos and Tentyra. When he and other pioneer Egyptologists ran out of pencils, they sketched with bullets. The descriptions Denon wrote in his notebook still glow with the sense of wonder the French felt as discoverers of an ancient world...
Most of them, too, were involved in a series of unprecedented successes in their home states in the late 50's. Gaylord Nelson is the only Wisconsin Democrat in about 70 years to win three state-wide elections in a row. Ribicoff was the boy wonder of Republican Connecticut, and everybody knows about the Kennedy story in Massachusetts. None of these men are neophytes like George Romney, and they all know politics is more than a set of rules written by the Founding Fathers...