Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway had begun to wonder when Cole Porter's next smash was coming; Kiss Me, Kate marks an interval of five years and two flops since his last hit show (Mexican Hayride). In the barren interval he also had to endure a film biography, Night and Day, of which he said: "It ought to be good because none of it is true...
...Makes a Man Study." In his day of triumph, Harry Truman spoke in homely phrases from the north portico of the White House: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
Citation's left front ankle had developed a hot spot, which Jones described as "a slight seepage of joint secretion." It wasn't enough to force an ordinary horse out of competition, but Jones was taking no chances with his wonder horse. He loaded Citation on an express car for Florida and three months of rest and treatment. The news left some Southern Californians sorer than Citation's ankle. They wanted to see him run in two $100,000 races at Santa Anita...
...most frenzied step-up of all has taken place in basketball. When Joe Lapchick played with the Celtics, the wonder pro team of the '205, scores were sometimes as low as 17-15. He remembers when "we played on slippery floors with basketballs black as charcoal from constant usage. As the season wore on, the ball would swell as seams loosened and baskets became harder to shoot...
...representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took the form of our outlook, our insight and foresight, our Christian endeavor to get right with God and our neighbor. No wonder we become so nervous and fearful when we look at the world's disorder-like Peter when he looked at the stormy waves in which he was destined shortly to sink...