Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comers since the opening of the Cherokee strip to the homesteaders in 1893." Indeed, when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission started searching for a site for its new $375 million atom-smashing accelerator 21 months ago, 200 or so communities in 45 states came forward with a pitch. No wonder. The competition was for an installation that would mean 3,000 new scientific and technical jobs, 9,000 new residents and a $21 million-a-year payroll...
...scene. You're not sustaining it. You're gabbling. You haven't any idea how to play that. You're playing this like a Girl Guide." After the second late night, reported Hart, Julie came through with "that terrible English strength that makes you wonder why they lost India...
...wrongs do not make a right. The irresponsible tampering with the body [Dec. 2] of a helpless soul should be censured as unethical and punished as malpractice. I wonder how Johns Hopkins could lend its authority to this vicious kind of surgery, which is based on a most stupid "logic" of its inventor and followers...
Admitted Ignorance. George Romney thus showed clearly last week that he can be an aggressive and peripatetic campaigner, a must for any presidential candidate. But the farther he pulls ahead of other Republican hopefuls, the more people are bound to wonder about several aspects of his campaign. For one thing, he seems almost too deliberately to leave his views about Viet Nam vague and couched in terms of readily admitted ignorance...
Most of Cerf's puns and gags are better than bathroom humor-but not much. He tells about the fellow named Kissinger who had his name changed so many times that soon all his friends were asking "I wonder who's Kissinger now?" And about the piano tuner named Oppernockety, who never returns to fix a bad job because Oppernockety only tunes once. Or the Indian chief who was delighted to learn that his two youngsters had been invited to join the yacht club; the chief had always wanted to see his red sons in the sail...