Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists have poured out their millions too, trying to win the hearts and minds of Africa. Sometimes, Moscow must wonder whether it is worth all the effort...
...stewardess. Then a few days later, the Russian cultural attache and two aides snatched Svetlana from a Conakry restaurant and sped off toward the airport. That was too much. The Guineans tossed all three into jail for the night, reinstalled Svetlana in her school, and began to wonder where foreign aid stops and foreign interference begins...
...fiber bundles or Spanish verb endings in the fourteenth century are your greatest joy in life, who is to say that you should spend your time on merely temporal activities? Out of respect, we will not contend with such as you (though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand...
Opponents of the reduction, and some liberals who failed to support it, say that the present Senate two-thirds rule strikes a happy numerical compromise between complete majoritarianism and one-man veto. Why, I wonder, is two-thirds a happier compromise than three-fourths or four-sevenths, or five-eights, or three-fifths? Why, except that it has been sufficient for one hundred years to abort legislation attempting to implement the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments...
...about myself and my girl--there and on the South Side and in Roxbury. The "liberal" white man worries, abstractly, about certain phrases. He worries about "equality of education, of housing." He worries about desegregation in some far off place. All this sounds good. But I wish he would wonder what "Negro-ness" is like in the system. My own experience with "life" has made me real sensitive to him. If I don't trust him, personally, like a buddy any offense strikes me as a racial slight. When he pushes me aside to get a seat on the train...