Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Brown, has proved a recurring source of embarrassment, as he did again by rudely accusing Sunday Times Publisher Lord Thomson of "great disservice to the country." Common Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last week he found it in a surprising place: the House of Lords. In the Queen's Speech opening Parliament, he let it be known that he intends to reduce the powers of the peers and do away with the Lords...
With these myriad activities, it is small wonder that the company Bob Sarnoff will take over recently reported third-quarter figures that should gladden the heart of any stockholder: sales stood at a record $804 million and earnings at a record $37.3 million...
...best students, have a tremendous influence on this general climate of opinion. If imponderable, this climate is probably the most influential single factor in determining individual decisions in a university and thereby deciding what the university really is. Naturally the faculty plays a decisive part as well. But I wonder if the students actually realize how much influence they do possess. Some years ago a colleague remarked to me that the top students determined the character of any given department. He may well have been correct. I have yet to know a scholar who did not respond in some fashion...
...wonder. In an age of intensive and instant communications, cryptography has acquired supreme importance in guessing and occasionally ascertaining the next step of friend and foe alike. Within the bowels of NSA, constant research is conducted into new theories and systems of communications and codes. Mathematicians probe the domains of statistics and higher algebra to solve or protect complex ciphers, while other experts focus on such esoteric topics as the effect of electromagnetic radiation on radio and satellite transmissions. To aid in this task, NSA harbors in its massive, concrete-walled basements what is probably the most sophisticated and largest...
...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...