Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently took the threat to heart. He boxed more than 100 rounds in training, built his own weight up to 212 lbs. The added poundage, explained Trainer Angelo Dundee, was "for power"-but sportswriters scoffed at that. Some of them went so far as to call Cassius "the punchless wonder...
...months, Bernard Rich was car ried onstage by the seat of his pants to play drums in his parents' vaudeville act. At six, sporting a sailor suit and Lord Fauntleroy curls, he played the Tivoli theater circuit as "Traps, the Drum Wonder." At seven, he toured Australia for $1,000 a week, and at eleven conducted his own band. Now a greying 49, Buddy Rich is still the Drum Wonder, still hanging on by the seat of his pants...
...something of a wonder that the merger did not take place long ago. As early as 1803, one denominational precursor of the Wesleyan-spirited E.U.B. held tentative merger consultations with the Methodists; in 1871, another E.U.B. progenitor, the Evangelical Association, approved by one vote a union with the Methodists that was never consummated...
...voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes were worked out. It was all a matter of simple arithmetic. But the flashy computers did the job in split seconds. Winners were declared before any vote counts appeared on the screen-much-to the bewilderment of viewers, who soon began to wonder how so much could be made of so little. Then, after those early, exciting announcements, came an inevitable letdown. Where was the tension of a close race that was still going on if everyone already knew the name of the winner...
Harvard was just plain sloppy at first. Two Crimson fumbles in the opening few minutes made everyone wonder if the boys had fully recovered from their upset loss to Princeton last week...