Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piel pointed out that military expenditure, accounting for more than half the federal budget, "has been playing the same role as public works in the first two administrations of Franklin D. Roose- yelt. After ten years of this kind of pump-priming, is it any wonder that our magnificent industrial establishment should have burdened us with such as enormous surplus of weapons...
Lolita. A baby-satyr (James Mason) and a pseudonymphet (Sue Lyon) are featured in this witless wonder that resembles no book of Nabokov...
...panic about the Soviet buildup in Cuba? Considering the fact that the U.S. has missile, bomber and military advisory groups stretching from England to Iran and from Okinawa to Southeast Asia, it is little wonder that the Soviets are anxious to get a little foothold of their own in "our" hemisphere...
...tried to keep everything more or less equal," recalls Rose Kennedy, "but you wonder if the mother and father aren't quite tired when the ninth one comes along. You have to make more of an effort to tell bedtime stories and be interested in swimming matches. There were 17 years between my oldest and youngest child, and I had been telling bedtime stories for 20 years. When you have older brothers and sisters, they're the ones that seem to be more important in a family, and always get the best rooms and the first choice...
...describing not only a conversation she had with Constance but the kind of communion that exists between them, ";listening to what she had almost said." What Miss Jackson's characters really do and say, however, offers enough diversion even without reading between or behind their lines: Merricat: I wonder if I could eat a child...