Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grads, like old grads everywhere, had no use for a loser-and their memories were short. In 1939, Homer had been a hero at A. & M. He had a wonder team that year, starring "Jarrin' Jawn" Kimbrough, which was voted the nation's best. In five years, his Aggies had played in four Bowl games. Box office was good at the campus stadium. Last year, when old grads began yelling for his scalp, Homer, who has coached at Texas A. & M. for 14 years, calmly told them to put up or shut up; his $10,000-a-year...
General Ike Eisenhower ducked Washington's pinpricking Gridiron Dinner, went off to Manhattan to make an innocuous speech to the Pennsylvania Society. He might as well have stayed in Washington. When he finished speaking in New York, the master of ceremonies asked: "Is it any wonder that we are proud and happy to have this man as the next president-" The audience broke into wild applause, after which the master of ceremonies finished, lamely: "-of Columbia University...
...wonder who's hissing me now, I wonder who just showed them...
...third round, people were beginning to wonder what was the matter with Joe Louis. He kept shuffling forward, a bald spot visible on the crown of his 33-year-old head, stalking his man as he always did-careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor...
Upton Sinclair, his radical grip long since relaxed, continued to dream up out of newspaper files further scenes from modern history as witnessed by his ubiquitous wonder boy, Lanny Budd...