Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians for the possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time has the bomb (say 1950), then no mind can imagine to horrors that...
...against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
Presumably, it is impossible for a man to be all things to all people, but at times Associate Professor Carle Clarke Zimmerman, of the Social Relations Department, must wonder about that. In his morning mail, for instance, he finds, written under a melodramatic letterhead, a persuasive description of Zimmerman as Socialist corruptor of youth and of American institutions. His next letter is from a Catholic priest who hails him as a vanguard figure in the struggle to preserve the American family. the same mail yields a series of long legal forms which notify him that an Arlington, Va., office-seeker...
...eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife and mused, "I wonder what church that...
Formula, Discipline, Showmanship. Sometimes the Holy Cross fathers who run Notre Dame wonder if the tail isn't wagging the dog-and hasten to insist that there is a university connected with the football team. It has 4,500 students, a good chemistry department (where a formula for synthetic rubber was discovered), one of the best libraries on Irish culture and history in the U.S., and some of the strictest discipline anywhere outside West Point and Annapolis...