Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Creek. They talked with wonder about John Bade, a 22-year-old sergeant from Toledo, who was leaning half-conscious against a tree with three bullets in him when a Red officer walked up, raised his pistol and shot Eade through the eye. The bullet lodged in the back of his skull but didn't kill him, and Eade was back in the States for Thanksgiving. They talked with humor about Lieut. Bill Shiebert of Albany, N.Y., who wants to become a Catholic priest when he gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert...
...Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could produce no papers to prove it, was sentenced to 20 lashes for vagrancy, a strange thing happened. Out from Moscow rode Grand Duke Michael, Alexander's younger brother. He personally...
Exhilaration is a fleeting state. After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona...
Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city. At 5:28 a.m., precisely twelve hours after everything went black, a large section of midtown Manhattan blazed anew with light?causing those whose electric clocks were right on time to wonder the following morning whether it had all been only a dream...
...today in New Harven, the Yardling will battle the undefeated Yalies in what promises to be the offensive duel of the year. Actually, it could boil down to a battle of stars; Crimson scatback and captain Vic Gatto against Bullpup passing wonder Brian Dowling, the finest freshman quarterback at Yale since Tom Singleton...