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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Bye Bye Bowles | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...wonder is that this ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hit It If It's Big | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Whatever their political sympathies, valley Lao wonder if the Meos, now that they have taken up modern arms, will ever put them down. Said one official: "We feel pity for them, disdain, but also respect. They have too much ability in a simple way, and too much money from their opium. They've chosen to live on the very tops of the mountains, among the clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Fighting Tribe | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...wonder how he could hurt his back when he has been falling on his face so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

About 50 million American women fight the Medusa menace-the serpentine hairdo that turned thousands of men to stone -without the help of hairdressers. They wash their own hair at home, set it with enough metal to plate a light cruiser, and then wonder how to dry it. Adding to the available hand dryers (wearying) and the portable hood models, the Norge division of Borg-Warner now offers a new solution -an attachment that snaps over the clothes port of any Norge laundry dryer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Don't Drip: Dry | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

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