Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holes six and eight feet deep and set poles and strung wire. I'll guarantee you that within the last 24 hours half the people in this audience have turned on electricity that Frank Clement put in your homes." Where he had once made hay as a boy wonder (he was first elected Governor in 1952 at 32), he now preached maturity. Orating to the accompaniment of hillbilly music, he portrayed himself as "Ole Frank," a "country boy," and allowed as how he would make a better chief executive than ever, because he was "ten years older, ten years...
...surprised when she married Joe DiMaggio in 1954−their courtship had been beautifully photographed. And few were surprised when they were divorced nine months later. It was only when she married Playwright Arthur Miller that her fans began to wonder: who is this queen of sex? Through Miller, she conducted a kittenish romance with the intelligentsia and for a while, everything she said sounded as if she were talking about Zen Buddhism. But when her marriage ended last year, she found herself able to give her religious views as "Jewish agnostic" and revert to the charms of innocence...
...much to sell This barker Maintains histories In the inflections of his wares, Is so ravished By the scholarship Which redeems a season's Losses, wins Like an evangelist so many Souls to the skin's show, It's a wonder Anything's left Of his own life...
...astronaut a gold watch, all of whose numerals read 13 o'clock. Smashing a mirror to open the meeting, Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen tried to hex Glenn: "If you'll talk 13 seconds, we'll love you. If you talk 13 minutes, we'll wonder how you ever got in orbit. If you talk 13 hours, we'll be in orbit." Replied Glenn, with a double whammy: "I thought you were going to say that if I talked 13 hours I'd be in good company...
...wonder boys" thrown up by Germany's postwar economic miracle, none rose faster or higher than jowly Willy Schlieker (rhymes with bleaker), 48. Born in the slums of Hamburg, Schlieker started out as a clerk in a law court, at 28 was chief of wartime steel allocation for the Nazi government. After the war, capitalizing on his Ruhr contacts, Schlieker built up a steelmaking, shipbuilding and trading empire that last year grossed $200 million. Last week, two months after he had been featured on TV as one of Germany's richest men, the bottom fell out for Willy...