Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder authorities expected a tourist boom this week--the experience of a total eclipse is said to be like no other--and Britain has not been in the path of a total eclipse since 1927. The world is in bright sunshine one minute then plunges into an eerie nighttime. Birds fly to their roosts, dogs howl and the moon is surrounded by a blue corona...
...their part. Only 600,000 visitors actually came for the eclipse, and many Cornwall regulars stayed away. With newspapers warning tourists to "bring supplies with you, just to be on the safe side" and predicting that up to 4 million people would flood into the county, it's no wonder people stayed away...
...wonder authorities expected a tourist boom this week--the experience of a total eclipse is said to be like no other--and Britain has not been in the path of a total eclipse since 1927. The world is in bright sunshine one minute then plunges into an eerie nighttime. Birds fly to their roosts, dogs howl and the moon is surrounded by a blue corona...
...seats separate the Democrats from resurrection and the Republicans from ignominy ?- the fundraising race is on. And according to candidates? own reporting to the Federal Election Commission for the first six months of the year (and remember, these six months are the first of these guys? terms; no wonder so little legislation gets passed) the totals are already in the stratosphere. The trend is most striking among the vulnerable. This time in 1997, Democratic freshmen had an average of $74,000 in the bank at the end of their first six months of fund-raising; now that number...
...Wonder why Bill Bradley's former Senate colleagues have little to say about the dark-horse candidate? There's a perception in the Democratic cloakroom that anyone who publicly speaks well of him these days will pay a price. "It's been made clear to me that the things I say about Bradley that are nice are heard in Gore's office," says Delaware's Joe Biden, who may endorse Bradley. Biden isn't sweating, and the threats haven't kept Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska from endorsing him, but other Senators feel the heat...