Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the Government decided to build Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny Mountains on the New York-Pennsylvania border. One of the great leaders of the Iroquois nation was buried there along with many Senecas, and the tribe was told to move them or they would be flooded. No wonder they call Kinzua "Lake Perfidy...
...forgotten his past feats. But with a natural confidence, he has no need to loudly trumpet his claims to fame. And as he talks, you begin to wonder how much of a claim to fame he regards his silver medal. To him, achievement is only noteworthy if it reflects hard work and dedication. The experience of participation, not the moment of victory, is precious to Raymond...
Katherine Healy, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said yesterday she was "disturbed" by the decision to have Edelin head the department because "I really wonder what effect this will have on medical school applicants who are pro-life...
...most solitary of team endeavors. Nobody blocks for the batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most American children are taught English, and kids on the sand lot learn baseball...
...human temperament. In the play of emotion, logic is seldom evident, and the laws of gravity and thermodynamics never. What goes up in the psyche sometimes does not come down; the boiling points of individuals and collectives alike are impossible to fix. In light of this, it is no wonder that science long shied away from studying, or attempting to explain, that most subtle and elusive of all human moods: happiness. Instead, it happily left the field to philosophers, preachers, poets-and the swarms of author-therapists who yearly vie for bestsellerdom with new formulas for attaining this desired estate...