Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sick. Cried he, in his first white heat of disappointment, "this has hung crepe on the biggest thing in Louisiana." It was small wonder: 10,000 workmen were pounding ahead on his vast yard; $10,000,000 had already been spent. By September, the first ship was due to come off his "floating assembly line" (TIME, May 4), and early next year he was due to deliver one Liberty ship...
Fire With Fire. At Newnan, 160 miles north, the skies were kinder to Talmadge's opponent, who put on a drier, better act. Young (35) Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, boy wonder of Georgia politics, was out to beat Talmadge at his own medicine-show game. He served up 100 pit-barbecued pigs, 1,200 gallons of Brunswick stew, a two-hour vaudeville show featuring the Coweta Cracker Crunchers...
China is Fearsome. Educated patriots in the big cities have a bogged-down, fatalistic faith in the victory of the United Nations, but, though they hate to admit it, they are impressed by Japanese successes. Hearing Allied propaganda of huge air armadas and vast production, they wonder why the Allies can do no better. The coolie-in-the-street is beginning to feel uncertain about the outcome...
...Winston Churchill flatly told Congressional leaders that Egypt would hold; Alexandria and Suez would be held. There was other reassuring talk. The Congressmen left, radiating optimism. Next day's headlines: ROMMEL 60 MILES IN EGYPT. Next day's: ROMMEL 100 MILES IN EGYPT. The Congressmen began to wonder...
...word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED AT HER INCREDULOUSLY STOP NONE OF US KNEW HER STOP SHE WAS A STATELY MIDDLE AGED WOMAN IN EVENING CLOTHES AND SHE WAS SIPPING A TALL DRINK PARAGRAPH...