Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wonder. Goldberg graduated from high school at 15 and entered upon a triple-time existence. Mornings he went to a junior college, afternoons he attended De Paul University, and nights he held down a post office job. As a tired-eyed 18-year-old, he was admitted to law school at Northwestern University-but only after proving, with some difficulty, that his two college transcripts represented the work of only one person...
...trimmed to two hours) than Susskind's long night session with Richard Nixon last year. Susskind approached the former President with what seemed abnormal relief. "I'm so grateful that you're here," he gushed. "You're 77 years old. You look marvelous. And I wonder-how do you explain your good health and your ebullience?" Replied Truman: "Well, temperance in all things...
...leaders of 25 neutral nations, calling themselves "the conscience of mankind," issued a formal statement with the predictable condemnations of Western colonialism-and not one word of direct censure for the Soviet resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests. Shocked by the anti-Western tone of the statement, Washington could only wonder whether it was not past time to shape U.S. foreign policy on the basis of enlightened self-interest as opposed to the dictates of "world opinion...
...Couple of Dips. The President's health was excellent last week. The long-nagging pain in his back had almost disappeared; he took a couple of dips a day in the White House pool (floating on his back one afternoon, he called out to a swimming companion: "I wonder if Maris or Mantle will beat Babe Ruth's record?"), and he was looking forward to playing some golf this fall. During the weeks when his back ailment had limited his physical activity, he had gained 10 Ibs., and his face appeared puffy; now he was down...
...corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee. "I suddenly realized,'' writes Jazzman Eddie Hall, "that birds blow the greatest riffs ever created." The band has an airy bounce, and the wonder of it all is that a few birds, notably the Baltimore oriole, come out of it almost as well as they went...