Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Manton S. Eddy, who takes a fatherly interest in his men, found time to wonder. Interested by a TIME report (Feb. 26) on how wives back home were meeting the test of war, General Eddy suggested taking a poll of officers and men in his XII Corps, which is part of Patton's Third Army...
...League, the St. Louis Browns had to be figured as favorites again-at 8-to-5 with the bookmakers. Their one weak spot, Manager Luke Sewell hoped, would be plugged by Pete Gray (up from Memphis), the most talked-about rookie of the year. Pete, a one-armed outfielding wonder who can hit some and drag bunt to perfection, looked good. Lucky Luke boasted that his Browns were stronger than they were a year ago. But at least two clubs seemed certain to give the Browns a real argument...
Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose designs are both whirling and geometrical, hated the thought of painting "dogs, vases, naked women." To him "a circle is a living wonder" and a blob of color is enough to convey a mood (blue, "the typical heavenly color," stands for rest; blue-black for grief; violet, the echo of grief; green is "the bourgeoisie -self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
Puzzled citizens began to wonder if the curfew were being eased out of existence, were still a little puzzled after another Byrnes announcement: "The government does not intend to withdraw its request for a midnight curfew...