Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack, also answered questions about the Alliance for Progress and the President's tariff bill, but reminded his audience that a senator does not make foreign policy. "Sometimes I wonder whether some of our candidates are running for senator or Secretary of State," he remarked...
...pleased to note that the letter writers from Holmes, all of whom are juniors and seniors, have passed safely "from the chaos of late adolescence to the more ordered world of young womanhood hopefully achieved in the junior and senior years." We wonder about the alchemy in the Radcliffe environment that magically transforms confused adolescents into mature young women at the completion of sixteen half courses. We are more dubious that any group has a right to assert its own maturity while doubting that of others. In the informal RGA poll being conducted today on the subject of rule changes...
Horror cracks the armor of unfeeling that encloses the father's heart. In accepting his guilt for his daughter's destruction, he finds his humanity. He turns to his suffering son and comforts him. Out of the depths, in wonder and gratitude, the boy cries as the film ends: "Father talked...
...wonder is that he sprints at all. As a child in Asbury Park, N.J., he was sickly, and a possible attack of polio left his right calf two inches thinner than his left. But his mother knew how to make an athlete. ''Frank was just like a scrawny chicken," she says. "He was always getting awful colds. I tried everything. I massaged his legs with triple-distilled alcohol, triple-distilled witch hazel and imported Italian olive oil. I mixed up goose grease, mutton suet, nutmeg and camphorated oil, and rubbed it on his chest." Well-marinated...
After Mrs. Kennedy reluctantly decided not to purchase some expensive gold statuettes at a bazaar, "Galbraith, smiling down on her, encouraged: 'Why not send the bill to the President?'" Concluded Ruth Montgomery, "Friends who know JFK as a close man with his own money wonder if Galbraith may not have gone too far with that remark...