Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known him when" were pleased but not surprised to see that Harry Truman had not gone high-hat. No one had ever doubted Harry Truman's loyalty to his old friends. It is one of his outstanding characteristics. But some Washington observers were beginning to wonder if some of these loyalties might not prove too big a burden. Some thought they could see a "government by cronies" ahead...
...German people, as for the rest of the world, the end of World War II would bring-had already brought-one tremendous, if negative, good: the end of the monstrous historical lie embodied in Naziism and its perverted practices. Hitler, if he were still able to wonder what his historical function had been as everything crumbled, might say with Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust: I am Ein Teil -von jener Kraft, Die stets das Base will und stets das Gute schafft...
...strength to inflict cruel setbacks on her foes at the Roer and in the Ardennes forest. They might or might not see that some breaking point had been reached, after which the German catastrophe had gathered volume and speed like an Alpine avalanche. And they might or might not wonder when the breaking point would come for Japan...
...foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. He quit his first reporting job on the Atlanta Constitution "because they weren't paying me enough money; they paid me nothing." Eight years later, after working on smaller Georgia papers, he was invited back to the Constitution-as the boy-wonder managing editor, aged...
...soldier stationed in New Guinea: "I had a few mental reservations as to the value of foreign missions. ... I have had all my doubts . . . erased. . . ." <| Wrote a Marine from Guadalcanal: "When we look at the simple life and the love of God these natives display, it makes you wonder just which race is ignorant or savage...