Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military competence as well. The defense complex is indicted for being unable to develop weapons that work well enough, wasting money needed for civilian purposes, giving bad and dangerous advice to the Commander in Chief, poor planning and worse execution in Viet Nam. Does the military, many people wonder, exaggerate the threats to U.S. security and grossly overestimate its own needs to retain?or even enhance?its own power...
...wonder that Kentucky's Red River Gorge, a 15-mile stretch of primeval beauty bordered by 600-ft. limestone cliffs, is known as the Grand Canyon of the East. Daniel Boone is supposed to have holed up there, and the surrounding national forest bears his name. Carved out of the Cumberland Plateau, it is an almost otherworldly wonderland of castle rock formations, soaring pinnacles and natural arches. It is also a refuge for some 50 species of mammals and 275 species of birds...
...wonder that the line between life and death had become blurred for these five people trying to make a film. They could not escape the ghosts. They could no longer tell with certainty who among their ranks was alive. Or dead. Or had merely touched death and come back to haunt the rest...
...with wonder that I realized that I really knew nothing more about him then than I had in second grade. And from the newscasts it was obvious that the press didn't know a great deal more. They had miles of video-tape and films to document what he had done, but none of them seemed to have a very good idea of just who he had been. He had been the rarest of public figures, the man who honestly wished to keep his private life private--and succeeded...
...incredible," he allowed. The reputation of psychiatric wisdom was certainly smudged when another expert witness at the trial, Psychologist Martin Schorr, admitted that he had relied heavily on the terminology of another man's book to formulate his own description of Sirhan's state of mind. No wonder that one of Sirhan's attorneys carefully asked prospective jurors if they agreed with the opinion that "all psychiatrists and psychologists are crazy...