Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since they owe so much to sumo, it is no wonder that the Japanese are wild about the sport-even though it has lost some of its appeal since the good old days of 2,000 years ago when wrestlers fought to the death. Now they only try to throw an opponent down or force him outside a 15-ft. ring. To most foreigners, the spectacle of two near-naked, 300-lb. behemoths locked in a sweaty embrace, tugging mightily at each other's loincloths and grunting like rhinoceri, is about as exciting as a traffic jam. That makes...
...After reading your story, "Kids Turning On" [Sept. 13] I wonder what Dr. Hayakawa would have to say about the generation that spent every Saturday at the movies and the rest of the time with their ears glued to the radio, listening to such gems as "The Green Hornet," "Stella Dallas" and "Jack Armstrong...
...acre farm was confiscated, his religious preaching got him arrested nine times, and unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known...
...kind of grimness about students now. They tend to come to college with the feeling that the administration is the enemy. There are days when I ask myself, "What am I spending my time doing this for?" You feel yourself sometimes torn into a thousand fragments, and you wonder how any man can go on in this business...
...commends one to a style-conscious age, each is nonetheless a man of some substance who, at least on paper, seems well qualified for the nation's highest office. Yet both have lurched off on their campaigns with so uncertain and uninspiring a beginning that the electorate may justly wonder whether either can bring any illumination or imagination to the serious problems that face the nation...