Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder whether some of your readers may not get the wrong impression from this article. You make no mention of the hundreds of thousands of American children still having to attend classes in basements, in barns and in firetrap structures because of the extreme shortage of schools...
...lusty heyday, the Toronto Star, Canada's biggest paper, once hired an entire railroad train to get its men to a story, invariably called liquor "booze," and interviewed heiresses and potentates around the globe. Last week Star readers might have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...
...produce some astonishing effects. In one scene the tenderness and bliss of a whole honeymoon are pressed into a moment when the young husband wakes in the same bed he had used as a bachelor and, listening to his bride as she cheerfully makes breakfast, lifts in silent wonder from beside his pillow one of her fallen hairpins...
...True Gun. developed by Tulsa's Max True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
Second Martini Ideas. The number of new products, or what often turn out to be merely new trimmings on an old product, has become so great that many a businessman has begun to wonder whether gadgets may get the upper hand. Said one Westinghouse vice president: "Frivolous features on appliances that were nothing more than second-martini ideas have claimed unnecessarily hundreds of thou sands of dollars in research money." If the money wasted by industry on meaningless model changes were plowed into basic research, the genuinely new products would blossom that much faster...