Word: wonder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everyone some rest from Quemoy, Matsu and Cuba. Kennedy struck home with economic issues in hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue of smooth organization in a traditionally Democratic city-he turned a visit to Manhattan into a mammoth, impassioned Democratic declaration of confidence. It reverberated along the Kennedy bandwagon tracks through the whole nation...
...constitutional separation of church and state (TIME, Oct. 10). Sharp criticism of the Puerto Rican bishops' pastoral letter came from an editorial in the Jesuit weekly America. "Such a prohibition," the magazine argued, "is unprecedented in American Catholic history. Catholics in the United States cannot but wonder about the na ture of a situation which would persuade church leaders to embark on a course of action so open to misinterpretation, not to say futility...
...churches are all but empty, City Temple, the "Cathedral of Nonconformism," often has overflow crowds. Said one temple official last week: "In nearby St. Paul's Cathedral, which holds 3,000, there are seldom more than 30 people at Evensong. If we have less than 1,500, we wonder what is the matter...
...farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford II in 1948 for $341,600,000 for Dreaking the oral tractor deal, settled four years later for $9,250,000. Said Ferguson: "This never would have happened if the old man was still alive...
...cited a question asked him by a British diplomat, who wanted to know how many U.S. information centers had been burned down in the last year. "Three," Allen replied; to which the Englishman said, "I wonder why they don't burn any of ours down anymore, as in the good old days...