Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communication barrier to overcome. At home we could talk about assignments or concepts as if engaging in regular conversation. The school building was as much of a home as the structure we both lived in outside the school day. The situation was a special dynamic to experience, making me wonder why a non-parental, child mentor bond couldn't strive to approach the familiarity of the bond I shared with my mother in the classroom...
...said that Thomas Jefferson, one of America's great university men, studied fifteen hours a day as an undergraduate. One must wonder if campus activists would label him "apathetic." One need not wonder to know Jefferson would join most Harvard students in giving one cheer for apathy. (We are too apathetic to muster the other two cheers...
...flying at nearly 500 m.p.h. "At that speed," he notes, "after a minute you're six miles off course." By week's end Italian authorities were insisting the plane was up to six miles outside the approved flight corridor. Marine officials agree the plane was too low, and some wonder if it was trying to fly under the 300-ft.-high cable. The Prowler's combat mission calls for it to fly as low as 200 ft. in enemy territory, popping up only to jam or destroy enemy radar. But Marine rules require the plane to stay above...
...Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong when Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John have come to sing...
...shortly after dinner, in a white tent over the West Terrace, as Wonder began You Are the Sunshine of My Life, an aide handed Clinton confidant Harry Thomason a printout off the Internet of a New York Times story about Betty Currie's testimony. The sight of Thomason hunched over in the dim blue light with Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel, straining to read, set off a buzz among the reporters on the press riser behind them. Abruptly, Peter Jennings left. Stop the music: Clinton may be done in--and by his own secretary...