Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similarly, many organized church groups that are on record as opposing the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam are beginning to wonder just what they are accomplishing. "We have a constituency of about 40 million Americans, and they are weary of the war," said a spokesman for the National Council of Churches. "But this weariness is reflected in such statements as, 'Let's get this war over with, even if it means major escalation.' " Said United Church of Christ Pastor William Bruce MacKenzie in Denver: "I haven't preached a sermon on Viet Nam for a long...
...away to sea, gets pregnant by a beastly Britisher, suffers a miscarriage in a London gutter, hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien, who once collaborated on a shrewd, satirical movie about Ireland (The Girl with Green Eyes), could have failed to add a leaven of Gaelic laughter to this...
D.C.L.'s chairman, Sir Robert Gumming, 66, a fourth-generation distillery-man, last year was knighted "for services to export." Small wonder. Johnnie Walker, the world's top-selling Scotch, sends more than a million cases a year to the U.S. This month, making his annual report for the twelve-month period ending March 31, Sir Robert said that overall exports of Scotch rose by 9,120,000 million gal., or 16%, to a total of 65,440,000 gal. Distillers Co. Ltd. also made marked gains with its gins and vodkas, especially in the U.S., where...
...American cult of the "mother" . . . ugh! No wonder some scientists seriously consider automatic incubators for future generations...
...that everything has come together at once, it's hardly any wonder that Perry invokes all the voodoo-and maybe a little moisture-to keep it that way. He's got a lot of responsibilities. His wife has just had a new baby, and there's a new house "with a two-car garage, a screened back porch, two fireplaces, four bedrooms and a real red carpet in the living room. And I have my own farm, too, four acres of tobacco and six acres cleared for corn, soybeans and peanuts." That...