Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime wonder of Red China was outspoken Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. Where others feared to tread, he plunged in and got away with it. Last month, when party leaders complained about his attack on the official doctrine that an ever-increasing population is essential to China's strength, Ma Yinchu roared: "Even though I am nearly 80 years old, and know that an individual cannot resist the multitude, I am ready to go to battle with bare hands and perish rather than yield...
...mine," his typical MW writes to her husband. "Often I am in need of someone to listen to my problems, to answer my spiritual questions, and to fill my emotional needs. To whom can I turn if you are not my pastor as well as my husband? I wonder sometimes if in the concentration on your professional duties, our own religious life is not in danger of becoming superficial and mechanical...
...Live by Law. Alberto Lleras more than any other man is keeping Colombia out of the dark. Lleras began his career as a hustling journalist and at 24 was running Colombia's top newspaper, El Tiempo. Jumping into Liberal politics, he held a flurry of boy wonder Cabinet posts, came to the U.S. as ambassador in 1943, became Colombia's interim President for a year at 39. In 1947, he went to Washington to play the leading role in creating the OAS, became its first secretary-general. He wrote most of the 1947 Rio mutual defense treaty that...
...common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder drug: in some people, at some times, viruses of supposedly the relatively harmless, common-cold class may cause disease as severe as influenza, while the more feared influenza viruses may give rise to symptoms no more severe than those of the common cold...
...wonder if Mrs. "Pepperidge" Rudkin [March 21] has ever eaten a real, long, fresh, crunchy French loaf. Has she ever tasted the hard, dark bread from the Canton Valais in Switzerland? If she had, she would not have the gall to talk about showing Europe "how to make good bread...