Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow gestures, always digging his hands in his pockets or twisting and turning awkwardly, as if he had caught his arms in the lining of his coat sleeves, while he expresses flawless liberal sentiments in a slow, pained voice. His friends marvel at Ambassador Winant's dress, wonder how he manages to keep his trousers so impressed, where he finds so many pale blue shirts with frayed cuffs and collars...
...veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week when it was voted in while 65 Democrats went to lunch one afternoon. It was a one-day wonder...
...Information, and its mercurial creator of genius, George Creel, the crusading Denver newspaperman. Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"-in short, "voluntary censorship." With that idealistic base Creel proceeded to build such a propaganda wonder, with vast, adroitly concealed powers over the press...
...wonder if, in his heart, Lindbergh hasn't changed his mind a little. The England that he knew-the England of Baldwin and Chamberlain-is not this England...
...Deprived of decent educational opportunities the young are doomed to a life of poverty and frustration. It is small wonder that they are disillusioned, that they say they have nothing to fight for, that they are impatient with those who day in and day out talk about saving democracy and at the same time oppose every measure, such as Federal support of education or improved social laws, which would go far to establish real democracy in this country...