Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total surprise, Kalam was named winner. The rest of the audience must have equally amazed, for the announcement was greeted by a long, disbelieving hush. In my incredulity, I could only wonder how the judges managed to make such a clearly wrong choice. If they thought any of the works too difficult for the HRO, they should have prepared a list of approved pieces far in advance. If they are prejudiced against large Romantic concertos in general, then the validity of the whole competition is called into question. The judges would do well to consider the adverse effect their decision...
...that one bike can carry 400 pounds of material. Five bikes, one ton, and then you think about what Secretary McNamara has said: less than 100 tons of materiel flow from North to South Vietnam each month. Before the bombing began, it was about six tons a month. You wonder whether American bombing can stop all of the 500,000 bycicles in North Vietnam...
...ghetto rioter and the hippie. One is protesting that he does not have, the other is turning away from what he has. Future historians might wonder why they didn't exchange places...
...scraps of memories, while Bergen recites a maundering monologue: "I think I lost my youth ... a man of 40 stole it ... I'll fall in love with an American from Houston or Memphis . . . have children named John or Elizabeth . . ." After such a drizzly forecast, it is no wonder that when Montand is released by the Viet Cong, he heads straight for home and wife...
...Moshe Dayan, which broke away from the Mapai two years ago after a feud with Eshkol. Even in Israel, such an improbable segmentation could not continue forever. Ever since the June war, all four parties have felt obliged to support Eshkol, a fact that was bound to make Israelis wonder whether all four were really necessary. Last month, Allon led his Achdut Ha 'avodah into a formal merger with Mapai, hoping thereby to become the government candidate to succeed Eshkol, who tends to favor Allon's ambition. Last week the Rafi followed suit. Over the objections...