Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish? Can't he get along with people?" Maybe he can't. "Failure to marry in either sex is the consequence of a fear of it," says Psychiatrist Irving Bieber. "There is increasing...
...folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse celebrating love, peace, action-and God. In this context the reader suddenly discovers that Chevrolet's slogan, "See the man who can save you the most," may have religious overtones. So can "Wonder helps build strong bodies 12 ways," improvising on the Wonder Bread slogan...
...more than $1,000,000. But the psychological damage was immense. "I seriously thought," said a shaken Mayor Richard Lee, "that something like this wouldn't happen here." Yet happen it did, and officials across the country, shuddering at the prospects for their own cities, could only wonder why. The reasons were not all that obscure. Much had been done, but much more remained to be done...
...always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin to wonder whether the government really means to protect them...
...Your article concerning the growing fear Negroes are inspiring among the white population fails to point out the very real and justified fear that black Americans have learned to live with in order to survive. I wonder if white Americans are frightened by the same things that scare us. Do they think we will lynch them? Burn their churches and homes? Sick our police dogs on them? Refuse to hire them? Or are they afraid that we might simply wish to be free from dependence and continued exploitation...