Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundation; Winthrop, 55, Governor of Arkansas, and David, 52, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was their first public get-together since 1960, and John D. Ill was prompted to question the wisdom of his longtime activities on behalf of population control. "Tonight's occasion makes me wonder," he said. "If my parents had been exposed to today's ideas of family planning. Win and David might not have made...
...wonder why, I wonder...
...wonder why, I wonder...
...weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...
...should have known. Jeeves, you stand alone. About that extra five quid a week you've been mentioning-consider it done. No wonder the highest in the land always come to you with their problems...