Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that made everyone pleased by the news. The Archbishop of Canterbury had no objections this time. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were reported "delighted" because it was "such an obviously happy match." A plainer reaction everywhere was "Thank heaven, Margaret's not going to marry some aristocratic chinless wonder...
Bulkily Silent. At Gadjah Mada University, Khrushchev seemed to be saying it was time for a change as he invited the cheering students to "try Communism." Waving his fists for emphasis, Nikita cried: "Each thinking person must wonder how it is that the working class of the Soviet Union-the peasants, the uneducated-took power, and in 42 years brought their country to second place in economic development and first place in the development of science...
...percentiled for promise by electronic gadgets, and harried by word that average admission standards will soon rise by one full year. Much worse, his cost for four years at a residential college may soon double to the price of a couple of deluxe Cadillacs-$16,000 or more. Little wonder that in his panic to get into college-and in his wild search for a scholarship-his mind boggles. Result: 60% of those who do become freshmen drop out of college. They choose the wrong school-for them-and have to start over again elsewhere. The cost to everyone...
There is a feudal clank to the title of Cameron Hawley's latest novel, and for a moment the startled bookshop browser may wonder whether this chronicler of corporate Lancelots has abandoned the executive suite for the ducal fortress. He has done no such thing, of course. The Lords are not border chiefs but a matrimonial amalgam-Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when...
...echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since she emerged from La Scala's ballet school. The daily Avanti found that Carla "has now fully arrived as a prima ballerina," and one critic noting that she is related to Verdi, observed: "No wonder she's so good; she drinks her morning espresso out of a cup that once was Verdi's." Few present would dispute the recent judgment of the London Daily Mail: "She will be one of the greatest ballerinas of our time...