Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother's rural home to talk about what they had endured. They wanted everyone to know how an agency of their Government had driven Frank R. Olson -the man they knew as husband and father-to commit suicide, and then left them for 22 years to wonder...
...hole," a wired blare-music pinball palace, the lights are blazing and it seems like the kids are worshipping all night. The other 18 holes are flawless carpets. No off-balance tilts here--your ball goes where it is intended to. Furthermore, the mini-civilization which this 18-hole wonder slithers through is detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price...
...sexless observer, who sees the way to this world of unlimited possibility; but Emily, transmuted into an earthmother, is the one who finally leads the rest. Emily, sure of her love and adulthood, has taken her place in a new order. The narrator can only watch and wonder as "the last walls" dissolve...
...classroom lecturer, he would stutter and stammer for at least a quarter of an hour before hitting his oratorical stride. Contemporaries loved to talk about the night that he got out of bed absorbed in some theory and wandered 15 miles in his dressing gown before thinking to wonder where he was. Altogether, Adam Smith was scarcely the man to whom an ambitious moneymaker would turn for guidance on the intensely practical questions of how prices, profits and wages are determined...
...June. Some see it as a sign that the two-year-old caucus is beginning to be recognized by the political status quo. They figure that the candidates must think the caucus has some political punch if they took the trouble to show up at the convention. Others wonder whether the speeches were just a lot of empty words and political manipulation...