Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is an error here I wonder if it is Author Fuller's or if TIME'S book-reviewer is entirely to blame? or simply failed to catch...
...months Winston Churchill and his advisers had sifted through the eligible names without turning up the right man. No wonder. Though the man for the job might be Tory, Liberal or Labor, he had to be of solid family, preferably aristocratic, and immensely able. More important, he had to be of liberal, humanitarian instincts and record, yet willing and able to act with a rough, uncompromising hand in any emergency and in all circumstances...
...Admiral Darlan began digging in, there were some who began to wonder whether U.S. policy had really paid off. This week came news that Dakar had been opened to Allied forces. But although some French troops were fighting with the Americans, there was no record of Darlan having ordered them to do so. He had been powerless to bring the French fleet at Toulon to the side of the Allies. If he succeed in establishing himself as leader of the French, would post-war France be governed by the officers' clique and her "200 families...
Rumbled California's Hiram Johnson: "The power of the Senate is very great. No wonder that certain persons want to see its power curtailed. . . . They wish it because they have some ulterior motive in preventing the exercise of the treaty-making power in the manner required by the Constitution." Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark said a friend told him it was common talk in the State Department that there was no intention of submitting a peace treaty to Congress at the end of the war but that arrangements would be concluded by executive agreements. Asserted Ohio...
...Green home was a source of wonder to Parisians. Visitors gaped at the huge sofas and tables imported from Savannah, were shocked on ringing the bell to hear Mrs. Green's high voice crying "If it's another bill I won't pay it!" At home, Father Green wore a Turkish fez; outside, a silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan...