Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shades of Wells Fargo and the old Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended...
...pollsters' main problem-which led in part to last week's statement-is that politicians and the press are constantly exaggerating the importance of the polls. Many analysts, including pollsters, are beginning to wonder whether "racehorse" surveys taken in the heated confusion of a presidential campaign are worthwhile, since the temperature of the electorate can vary by half a dozen points from one week to the next...
...whose delegates go wild for Barry Goldwater and give a louder ovation to Max Rafferty than to Mayor Lindsay, when Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland can switch his allegiance from Rockefeller because of a personal slight and end up making the nominating speech for Nixon it makes me wonder about the efficacy of the two party system and especially of the nominating process...
Harold McDougall, assistant head of ISSP, said, "The whole black communty (on a national scale) has been catalyzed in the last year. Last year, if one black saw another, he might wonder, "Should I say hello to this guy? Maybe he wants to blend in and I shouldn't embarrass him by having a Negro say hello...
Whatever the reason, the dip made the smaller and more vulnerable brokerage houses wonder whether the backlog of paper work could not push them toward the "fail-safe" limit...