Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is only one example of things we can't fail to see and start to wonder about-especially when we hear radio pleas and read newspaper articles on how desperately the armed forces need nurses...
Many in the U.S. believed that it was. But they began to wonder why their President had fallen for the false surrender report. Should not he, of all people, have known exactly whether or not surrender had been achieved? Why did he, the Commander in Chief, have to call General Eisenhower, as he said he did, in order to check the report...
...most Americans, and on March 4, 1920, he wrote of Woodrow Wilson: "He has toppled from his pedestal. His European interference has won him European hatreds and his American autocracy has cost him American friends. His erstwhile foreign wards stand appalled at his posture, and his erstwhile domestic followers wonder why they were so gullible twelve months ago. One year from today he will pass out of the White House and yield his misused authority to a successor. He must always be gratefully remembered for his magnificent spiritual leadership while we were in the throes of battle. He must also...
...three-week spree cost his paper $2,000 (the Post-Gazette gave the meat to local hospitals). Out of it came a seven-day-wonder front-page series, featuring names & addresses of the local black marketeers...
...more entomologists study DDT, the new wonder insecticide, the more convinced they are that it may be a two-edged sword that harms as well as helps. To find out, they have lately taken to spraying entire islands and other large areas with it. The city of Toronto has now given a detailed report on one such test...