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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the storm, in typically bravura fashion, he announced: "I have ordered the Army Corps of Engineers not to permit the Susquehanna to rise another inch." The river rose no further. Afterward, Flood steered about $1 billion in disaster relief to his district. No wonder, then, that a constituent described him as "the next closest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dapper Dan's Toughest Scene | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...only wonder if Leon Spinks realizes how much his win has really done for his sport...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: In Las Vegas They Built the Spinks | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...ever wonder why a great college like Harvard is screwed up in so many little ways...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...ever wonder why we don't have a student government association...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...appalled to think that "not only was the Colonel Margaret's husband and the father of her unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge of it made Mr. Earnshaw ill." When such awkwardnesses of her own creation threaten to overwhelm the story, L'Estrange keeps things moving by simply brazening through. She produces a page-turner rather than art, but she does not drag Wuthering Heights into blithering depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More News of the Dark Foundling | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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