Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder...
When she called on Mr. Knudsen a month later, said she, he brushed her off again with the answer that something was being worked out. "I wonder," wondered the President's wife, "if Mr. Knudsen knows what hunger is-if any member of his family has ever gone hungry? The slowness of our officials in seeing ahead, in seeing the very obvious things that are developing, is responsible for the whole mess...
...phrase, the United Nations, slipped into the world's vocabulary. Editorial writers and military commentators used it glibly. And last week they began to wonder what, exactly, it meant-that pact by which 26 nations bound themselves fortnight ago not to make a separate peace with their Axis enemies...
...Authors. In a Nordhoff & Hall novel, readers often wonder which wrote what. In the case of Botany Bay the answer is simple: Nordhoff wrote the odd-numbered chapters, Hall the even. They had previously divvied up the research, roughed out the story together. That took them six years. They wrote the book in eight months. They exchanged chapters as they finished them, hacking and cutting each other's work, gradually blending it into a single style...
...Government ought to concentrate on fighting it. CBS and NBC would seem to him to be doing their part, putting on news and Treasury shows and all that. "Monopoly" he would recognize as a word lately adjudged inapplicable to Aluminum Co. of America; and he would wonder why, then, it should be fastened on two competing radio companies that are indispensable to the nation...