Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, typically, made passionate love to various broad-royals until an angry count cut the blackguard's heart out, had it roasted and served to his unfaithful countess. Others sang such outrageous satires against the papacy that they helped provoke the ruinous Albigensian Crusade. Small wonder they died out. During the two centuries in which they flourished, there were about 400 of these minstrels. Today there is roughly...
...Salinger's hands, it is a magical world. But increasingly, the grown reader is beginning to wonder whether the sphinxlike Seymour had a secret worth sharing. And if so, when Salinger is going to reveal...
...Mississippi. Whether the representatives and people of Mississippi would receive with equal hospitality someone as repugnant in thought and act to them as was Governor Barnett to many of his hosts here--someone as willful in defending human equality as Governor Barnett in attacking it--is a question to wonder about. From the loss of life in September in Oxford, and the retrograde arrogance of Governor Barnett's praise of Negro humility, one suspects the answer to the question is "No." But Mississippi will have a chance to answer the question again, and again, and again. This visit should show...
...1/120th of a second and then shoots them out into the experimental hall with an energy of 6 billion electron volts, the highest electron energy yet achieved. In so doing it creates a situation permitting scientists to peer more deeply into the nature of our physical universe, into the wonder world of particles and anti-particles, than have any of their predecessors during the whole history of mankind. It is instructive to recall that the first primitive misnamed "atom-smasher" was built in 1928 and that the powerful accelerators of the kind now used by high energy physicists to advance...
...lean, blond professional from California, drives anything with wheels-and does it so skillfully that Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...