Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops and millions of dollars were committed to keeping order, handling all the household problems, and trying to undo the actions of the Premier who had invited the U.N. into the country in the first place. With more countries getting independence nearly every month, Dag Hammarskjold might well wonder where it all would...
...deeper politico-economic sickness that has plagued pro-U.S. President Betancourt and opened him to charges of inmovilismo-do-nothingness. Although black gold blesses Venezuela with Latin America's highest per capita income ($875), half the 6,894,000 Venezuelans live and hunger in squalid shacks. They wonder why the riches do not trickle down, and many view Betancourt as ineffective compared to their mental picture of onrushing Cuba...
...wonder was that Wilma Rudolph could run at all. The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe. By high school, Wilma had improved enough to become a four-year, all-state basketball player and to clean up in track. Now a junior at Tennessee State, Wilma is studying to be a teacher (average grade: B plus), has so little trouble winning races in the U.S. that she has sometimes slowed down in mid-sprint to shout...
...after the Cincinnati Reds' Second Baseman Billy Martin caved in the face of Cubs' Pitcher Jim Brewer in a rhubarb over beanballs, the Cubs and Brewer fought back with a $1,040,000 suit against the Reds and their terrible-tempered infielder, provoked Martin to crack: "I wonder if they want this in cash or by check...
...newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads-even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the optical scanner, it operates roughly on the principle of the human eye, has already earned the obvious Orwellian nickname...