Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether the South Koreans can keep their part of the bargain is unclear. The legislature in Seoul rushed through a host of reforms last week but balked at a bill that would have made it easier to implement layoffs and restructuring at the large chaebols. No wonder: last January, when the parliament tried to pass a similar measure, Korean workers staged a general strike that paralyzed the country for more than three weeks...
...down, incomes up, inflation nonexistent--but it's high noon on the country's streets and highways. This is road recklessness, auto anarchy, an epidemic of wanton carmanship. Almost everyone from anywhere has a story about it, as fresh as the memory of this morning's commute. And no wonder. Incidents of "road rage" were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Some occurrences are grisly enough to make the headlines. Last year a high-speed racing duel on the George Washington Memorial Parkway outside Washington killed...
...mood is so black I wonder if it goes beyond the bed issue, down to some remembered anger with me for bad-son behavior that occurred 30 or 40 years ago. I wonder if she is thinking, "I carried you to bed often enough!" I wonder if she still resents my putting her in this nursing home...
...wonder my head off. Alzheimer's creates only indecipherable stares and shattered monologues. The patient broods like a dark road or spews smashed china; don't even bother to go for a broom...
...wonder if my mother is losing all her words one by one, until she eventually will be down to her last word, the only word left her in the world. What word would that...