Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...verdict of the courts, the Bowmans will never be the same. "We are filled with fright," says Elizabeth Bowman. "This has made both of us into people we never thought we could be. I tell myself that two years of my life have been taken away-but then I wonder if my whole life is gone...
Another mark of McCord's new age is a loss of Christian confidence. The church, he writes, "has begun to wonder openly about her role. She has become introverted, turned in on herself, and has broken off contact with the world that she no longer knows. She was unable to capitalize on the revival of interest in religion after the war, is depressed about her failure in mission, and contents herself with endless surveys and meetings in an effort to knock something together that might get her off center...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...
Then the Patriots fell apart, as they so frequently do. New York barreled to three straight touchdowns, and led, 20 to 9. Then Cappelletti, who does everything, passed to Larry Garron for 27 yards and a touchdown on a fake field goal play. No wonder the Titans were fooled. Cappelletti later scored a touchdown on a fine pass reception, but New York held...
Originally a physicist, von Bekesy became interested in the car when an economist asked him (in the early 1920's) about improvements possible in communications systems. He then began to wonder how much better was the car than a telephone system, according to Stanley S. Stevens, Director of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory...