Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the courthouse lobby and up the stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
...small brown unidentified parcel that the postman delivered to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum was carelessly wrapped and uninsured. When the wrinkled wrappings were removed, museum officials stared in wonder. The face painted on the old, 11½ by 8⅜ in. wooden panel was familiar, but it had not been around for a long time...
...horses, was not through trying to hobble the Democrats. He charged in again when Majority Leader Scott Lucas called up a resolution to give Government employees a four-day weekend for the inauguration. The Truman inauguration, he said, was proof of his earlier remarks about extravagance. He lamented: "I wonder what has happened to the word 'economy...
...having passed on this bit of wisdom, the Chief Editorial Writer went back to sleep, pausing only to wonder if the Student Council Sub-Committee on Food would get to work nice and early next term. Possibly, he thought drowsily, and if it doesn't ...well, you can't go on quoting William James forever...
...began Patton in a prayer on Dec. 23, 1944, the eve of the Ardennes offensive, "this is Patton talking . . . Rain, snow, more rain, more snow-and I am beginning to wonder on which side they actually are in Thy headquarters . . . You must decide for Yourself on whose, side You are standing. You must come to my help so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace...