Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard fans must wonder if there isn't a better word than "hustle" for what Tyson takes onto the football field every Saturday. Straining for an interception in the second quarter, Tyson ran full steam over the Harvard bench and somersaulted in the first row of the stands. Before the crowd could react, he was back on the field. Next play he teamed up with cornerman Mike Ananis to stop Smith from scoring B.U.'s second touchdown...
...second appalling thing about the play was the audience which laughed at it. When the crowd roars as one at a line like, "Your sex life is like a continual winetasting: you roll 'em around and spit 'em out"--then you begin to wonder about the audience and forget your morbid curiosity about the author...
...hang-ups on the war-from civil rights leaders, who saw it siphoning funds from the blighted cities, to profit-minded merchants, who saw it increasing pressure for a tax increase. All at once, too many Americans found it too much to bear-or at least began to wonder whether it was worth it. Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen worried: "There's fatigue in the country...
Mincing Machine. In the current political climate, it is questionable how long Johnson can maintain his more-of-the-same stance. Certainly, he has the resources to outlast Ho Chi Minh, whose industries and agriculture are under intense pressure from the bombing. Indeed, some officials wonder that Ho has not taken stock and simply called off the war. If he did, the U.S. might pull out so rapidly that the Communists could take over at their convenience-and it is highly doubtful that any U.S. Administration would ever send troops back to challenge them...
...wonder is that Nelly Sachs could summon up a poetic vision that resolutely exorcised bitterness...