Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no simple, offhand explanation, and this made people wonder all the more. The last possible date of service to military secrecy or to the aid of the forced-down flyers had passed months before. The raid, even to many of its specific details, had been a U.S. open secret for a long time. The fact seemed to be that the raid, which had first been hailed as a great and famous thing, had gradually been publicly accepted as something less-a bold but ineffective exploit-in what the New York Herald Tribune called "our sophomore period...
Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland-at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked...
...work deadline. So far the Government has not answered Lewis; it has only threatened. It has taken no vigorous steps to ease the living-cost-crisis that faces these men. Unlike the English Parliament, Congress has refused to prevent the rich from living as usual. It is no wonder that these miners follow Lewis so blindly through his political odyssey. A few decisive measures must follow the President's speech at once. You can't loosen Lewis's hold with threats. You can't mine coal with bayonets...
...Disburser's Nightmare--in three acts" was the entertainment prepaid for the Ashlers, the Ambroses, and other guests at Briggs Hall on Monday evening. Instructors who wonder why we can't remember how to balance the daily records of the Ship's Store and the Navy Mail Clerk were amazed to find their choicest classroom asides so accurately quoted. We hope they weren't surprised to see the ghosts of the celebrated first class of WAVES at the NSCS take on corporeal form. When they sang to the haunting strains of "Chloe," "All our marks will taunt you," and "through...
Where the printed word has lost its first wonder, there is evidence that the political power of the press has declined. In Argentina, in 1916, the remarkable Irigoyen became President without the support of either of the two big Buenos Aires newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. In 1929 only one national daily newspaper in Great Britain supported the Labor Party, but that party, aided by the trade-union press, won more seats in the House of Commons than any other. In 1936, newspapers with 60% to 70% of U.S. circulation were for Alf Landon...