Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked $262,000 for "Operation Cool-It," aimed at shifting 50,000 restless youngsters from the sweltering...
...traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder if it was not a put-up job to enable Marlowe to flee the country...
...wonder then that some of the acting does not come up to the brightness of the whole production. Three dandies start out a scene talking like different human beings, and end it sounding like male counter-parts of the Three Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique...
...behind self-constructed walls of complacency, mediocrity and provincialism. Well into the 1950s, the state ranked at or near the bottom of virtually every index of progress, from literacy to average income to the number of dentists per capita. Though the legislature in the '20s dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back...
...wonder was the punch. Cleveland Williams can't even remember what happened during the last 4 min. of the 7 min. 8 sec. that he was in the ring with Clay. And it's a good thing he can't. In the first round, Cassius contented himself with giving the Cat a dancing lesson and a nosebleed. Then, when the bell rang for Round 2, Trainer Dundee ordered: "Go after him. Use a chopping right." Clay's first chopping right dropped Williams for a count of two; his second caught the Cat flush on the mouth...