Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about private and community shelters. People got so confused they didn't know what was right-and they still don't." In Oklahoma City, the number of inquiries about shelters received monthly by one company has dropped from 40 to 1. Last fall Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., headed by Leo Hoegh, former director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, was selling 200 fallout shelters a week. Last week Hoegh sold fewer than ten. Says Hoegh, who has 3,000 shelters crated in storage: "I am bleeding rather profusely...
...amazing attraction ever presented for the edification of the citizens of your fair city (come closer, please, so that I may describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles of Madagascar . . . He crawls on his belly like a reptile...
...would be Nazareth." His manner was a winning confection of good will and grandeur-like a maharajah at a mahouts' outing. His new friends in Israel and Japan called him "a nice gentle guest" and "a tough dandy." Back home, his old friends were only left to wonder: Who is this prince of charity, this prophet of peace, this generous, sober, chaste diplomat, this new Frank Sinatra...
...impacts of shifts in defense spending. Unemployment is still at 5.5% and shows no signs of changing very rapidly. In only two months since 1953 has unemployment dipped below 4%; in only one month since 1957 has it been below 5%. This performance is shameful, and it is no wonder that many people are skeptical when economists tell them there will be no trouble in maintaining full employment no matter what happens to defense spending. Until we return to full employment all the economists and planning offices in the world will be unable to convince our workers and industrialists that...
...faces. Magic reflected in a balloon. Thin and flaky countries. Rich and buttery countries. Somewhere mixed in with the fire-smell of sausages, the Armenian girl's long veil, the proud colors of an African cloth--somewhere there is what we really are. Taste something strange and sweet and wonder. Or smile from the warmth of an inherited identity. And still wonder...