Word: wondered
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...unenthusiastically crowded square in Burgos last week one of Europe's last remaining old-school dictators rose to congratulate himself. On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power even Francisco Franco himself displayed only lukewarm enthusiasm. "Sometimes," he mused, "I wonder what will happen if the people who have given me their support in these past ten years will give me some support for more years when our problems are solved...
Theatergoers in Manhattan who saw Olivier as Oedipus last spring knew that he had most of the makings and many of the accomplishments of a great tragic actor. Yet it was still possible to wonder whether he had quite the size of soul and voice and presence to wring the grandest roles dry. If London's generally reliable critics were to be trusted, such doubts were no longer possible. Seldom in a decade has the London Times talked like this...
Five in Ten? The wonder was that either team was even a pennant contender. The Dodgers did not have a single 20-game-winning pitcher; the Cards had one, Howie Pollet. The Dodgers had two regular .300 hitters (Dixie Walker, Augie Galan); the Cards had three, including League-Leader Stan Musial. But when it came to managers, the Dodgers had a big edge: at getting the most out of his mediocre material, the Cards' polite little Eddie Dyer was no match for flamboyant, volatile Leo the Lip Durocher...
...Americans rarely know their Secretary of Commerce, but they know Wallace-or think they do. Everybody knows a little bit about him, but very few know the complete man. In the aggregate they admire, respect, hate or ridicule him. Almost all are either puzzled or dismayed by him, and wonder how he ever got to Washington-forgetting that he would probably never have been there except for Franklin Roosevelt's penchant for collecting men of all shades, types, opinions and personalities, including the curious...
Exercise In Genealogy. The "wonder worker Jesus," he has discovered after patient inquiry, was actually the rightful heir to the throne of Israel. He was, in short, the legitimate but unacknowledged son of Prince Antipater, grandson of Herod the Great. This secret, known to few people during Jesus' life, became known to Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor General of Judaea. That was why Pilate granted Jesus a private interview and that, of course, accounted for the inscription Pilate wrote for the cross: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews...