Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder if Mr. Crawford, the Innocent Abroad, ever reads such a story as "Nazi Research?" If he does, he probably manages to disbelieve it; if he can't do that, I suppose he doesn't think it makes much difference...
Sentimentally, G.I.s want home to be just as they left it. But they know too that they themselves have changed. Often they wonder aloud if their families and friends have changed as much or in the same directions. Out of danger and suffering comes a new, unfamiliar searching for beliefs and principles. And from the searching comes maturity...
...despite these maneuvers, and more to come, the majors are beginning to wonder. The war, taxes and the Department of Justice may yet combine to bring cutthroat competition back to Hollywood...
...things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
...this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...