Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking at the headlines last week, a taxpayer could see plenty of cause for his high tax bite-and maybe, more than usual, tended to connect the two. The headlines out of Cuba, Brazil and Argentina might make him wonder whether the Alliance for Progress was worth it-or more necessary than ever. Guerrilla warfare in South Viet Nam and an easing of crisis in Berlin were the kinds of ups and downs of Communist harassment he had learned to live with. The lull in Berlin could remind him that there would be no such breathing space without...
...their hands at his entrance into this year's Senate race. Greying, cold-eyed Steve Shadegg is one of the best pros in the business-but his do-it-my-way-or-else personality has earned him enemies. What is more, some of his fellow Republicans wonder if the voters will find a stiff campaign against Carl Hayden such a good idea right now. Hayden heads the important Senate Appropriations Committee-and from that seat he can help arid Arizona get a healthy share of federal funds for water development, once the U.S. .Supreme Court untangles a bitter water...
Last week, staring into a Scotch and soda in a Frankfurt bar, an Army captain brooded: "This isn't Korea or Viet Nam, and it takes more than an effort of will to remain pure here for two years. And I wonder the same about my wife back home. You worry about home, her old boyfriend, the kids." Said an Air Force chaplain in England: "Morale is at rock bottom. We had an incident of a rendezvous in London between an officer and another man's wife. I thought somebody was going to get shot...
What in the world is going on? Millions wonder in rising alarm, then hear with horror that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, by fateful inadvertency, have ex ploded superbombs at almost exactly the same moment - one near the South Pole, one near the North Pole. The geostrophic jolt, statesmen grimly reveal, has knocked the earth 11° off its axis and, what is in finitely worse, has steeply deflected its orbit. In four months, scientists estimate, the earth will pass so close to the sun that the world will end in fire, and humanity will roast...
...little girl gasps and runs back to tell her sister (Diane Holgate): "He's in our barn! He's come back!" Wonder fills the sister's eyes. "Asleep in the hay," she murmurs dreamily. Next morning, while the sound track tinkles a nursery-level arrangement of We Three Kings, the girls take "Him" some food-bread and wine, of course. And when their little brother (Alan Barnes) pops in, they swear him to secrecy: "Don't tell the grownups...