Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like you I listen to every word of the BBC. From my faraway home, I have followed with wonder and despair the events up to and beyond the fall of France...
Pondering such facts, plain citizens were bound to wonder whether phrases like "12,000 more planes for Britain" were deceitful figments. The U. S. industry has no such capacity now (its October production of warplanes was less than 1,000). What the President was really talking about-no matter how immediate he sounded-was future capacity. Some of the plants to create this capacity were abuilding last week, should be in production next year. For many of them, "future" meant 1942, at the earliest. Booming Pratt &Whitney, for instance, should indeed have its 17,000-20,000 annual rate...
Several things happened last week to make diplomats wonder how long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...said to him, 'This must be right, all the experts say so, Hitler says so, Marx says so, Christ says so, The Times says so,' he would reply in effect, 'Well, I wonder. Let's see.'... You would come away realizing that an opinion may be influentially backed and yet be tripe...
...interest was to enlighten the theatre-going public, the film industry's motive was consistently to appeal to the lowest common denominator of human intelligence so as to equally appeal to the greatest possible number of potential box-office patrons. . . . With such cross-purposes, it is little wonder that the industry and I parted ways...