Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strange & Incomprehensible." One widespread Western response to Khrushchev's attack on the President was to wonder whether Nikita was "going nuts," as the New York Daily News bluntly put it. "On this assumption," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "the West must be prepared to protect itself from the very special menace of a deranged operator of a destructive military machine...
Moss's record is his own monument. He has won most of the world's great motor races, many of them several times. He has been Britain's champion nine times. One of his regular rivals wryly acknowledges: "When I pass Moss, I wonder what is wrong with his car." Says his fellow British driver, Tony Brooks: "Driving over 200 miles on each of the world's circuits, Stirling would turn out quite a bit better than anyone else." Says Australia's skilled Jack Brabham: "He's the toughest competitor anybody can have...
...middle-aged restaurateur who hankers for a college education. After matriculating in a Southern institution, Crosby has to survive a fraternity initiation requiring him to crash a cotillion ball as a belle. All trigged up in a blonde wig, false eyelashes, lipstick, rouge and falsies, Crosby volunteered: "No wonder the ladies of the day got the vapors and fainted. I feel like a barrel with the staves too tight...
Banks v. Marines. What spells doom for Trumpet is its balance sheet. No one knows this better than its president. John Ridgely Warren, an aging wonder boy with a Roman nose, whose past careers have rocketed and fizzled like Roman candles "Ridge" Warren has beefed up Trumpet's circulation, but the magazine's advertising is a sickly trickle, its creditors are edgy and the bank is poised to snip its credit life line. Two-thirds of View centers on Ridge's hectic bids to bring the marines of high finance to the rescue...
...Biblical texts. It is highly unlikely, argues Graves, that Samson caught 300 real foxes, set their tails afire and turned them loose to burn the cornfields of the Philistines. What he probably did was to arm 300 soldiers with flaming torches and inflame the men with the mushroom wonder drug. When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes!", she is asking for the fiery aphrodisiac, according to Graves, to be washed down with flagons of wine...