Word: wondered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Less successful in the theater than his younger brother Jerome (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), stocky, swart, 39-year-old Edward Chodorov has been more adventurous. Besides landing solidly with his psychological thriller, Kind Lady, he wobbled about in farce (Wonder Boy) and a romance (Those Endearing Young Charms) before turning to polemic in Decision...
...prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
...reported: "Destroyer closing, destroyer closing," and you knew sooner or later it would be over the top. Then you hear the sort of faint splash-splash of the propeller getting faster and faster. This is the most frightening time. You hear this thing going over and you wonder, "Has he dropped it now?" I forget how many depth charges were dropped, 40 or 50. I remember saying to myself: "This is hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take it." I looked around. The men were not very happy...
...pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and favorite son for the Republican Presidential nomination, is not such...
...with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...