Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also wonder how those ice-cream whites would look after a washing without being able to press them or iron them. Besides the dress uniform will never be as practical as the present blues because after a hectic liberty all you have to do is take them off, turn inside out, fold neatly and stow them away in your locker. Then next liberty take them out, brush them off and they look just like...
Norman Corwin, radio's 35-year-old wonder boy, enjoyed a week befitting his prestige. He won the first Wendell Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...
Maggie Teyte has a way of being herself on stage, which charmed the audiences but sometimes chilled the critics. Says she, "The formal, cold stage is pfft. I want to throw my arms and roll my eyes. These young girls, they parade and strut around the stage and wonder 'What do I look like?' I forget...
...Kettles, Maw shouted at the dogs to "stop that goddamn noise." Then she hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles, who had a good stream, did not install a bathroom. Maw Kettle was incensed: "And have every sonofabitch that has to go, traipsin' through my parlor? When we start spendin' money like drunken sailors, it won't be for no lah-de-dah toilet...
This week Congress began to argue the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain. The subject was touchy. It could touch off almost any firecracker in a politician's handy hoard of firecrackers. It also touched a great many knotty economic problems. But no one had to wonder whether politics or economics would make the most or the loudest talk...