Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation is one of concern, hope, courage, strength and vigor; also one of neglect, dejection, fear, weakness and impotence. Shall our enemy thrive by taking advantage of our youthful characteristics? I wonder. I wonder who really put the $10 and $20 bills in the hat at the rally in support of the demonstration. I wonder who printed all the propaganda I received those days. I wonder who paid for the transportation of those I met from New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. I wonder who supported the ex-G.I.s from Viet Nam who infiltrated my mind with...
...wonder that children, as they grow to adolescence, often turn out to be complete strangers to their dismayed parents? Why do an enormous number of young people from educated and middle-class families find it difficult or impossible to relate to anybody and therefore drop...
...ease their hunger pangs. Grocers and restaurant operators consistently refused to sell or give them anything, and farmers hid their stock. At one point, the underground radio gleefully announced that the average Russian tank crew's daily ration consisted of "six potatoes and some fat." It is small wonder that, after sitting down to that kind of mess, one trio of noncoms decided to raid a grove of apple trees near downtown Prague. Unfortunately for their appetites, the trees happened to be growing behind the U.S. embassy. The soldiers were chased off the grounds, like errant schoolboys...
...lost his right arm fighting for the U.S. in Italy during World War II, Inouye was particularly attuned to the problems of another U.S. minority, the blacks, "whose aspirations have burst fullblown on us after more than 100 years of systematic racist deprivation." Asked Inouye: "Is it any wonder that Negroes find it hard to wait another hundred years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society...
...opportunities. On the day of Robert Kennedy's death, he refused to report the baseball scores on his nightly New York newscast. He explained: "When people view outlet, escape and entertainment as the be-all and end-all of human ex istence, then I have to wonder how sick this society really...