Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacWilliams swung straight in his seat, buckled his safety belt and started to let down. Darkness was closing in. "This is the time I hate. I'd much rather have full darkness." He shrugged. "Wonder where it'll be tomorrow...
Rain turned Tanforan's racing strip into thick, black gumbo. But it takes more than gumbo to stop Citation, a wonder horse in all weathers. Last week, in his first West Coast race, Citation sloshed effortlessly down the stretch to win his tune-up for next week's $50,000 Tanforan Handicap. His time was 1:12, one second off the six furlong track record. Explained Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "I didn't want to hurry...
...Central Bank last week, importers and exporters found it almost impossible to learn where the country stood on the foreign exchange transactions, and no wonder. The bank had no head. Bank President Orlando Maroglio, outspoken foe of Miranda's high-price policies, had finally given up his fight with the economic czar (TIME, Oct.11), and resigned...
...Arthur Collins, who had founded Kaleidoscope and was squeezed out of it three weeks after the first issue appeared, agreed with Editor Stout. "The sole cause of their failure was their management, or lack of it," said he. "It was sure what one magazine called it-a '90Day Wonder...
...action. This gives them the strange, busy air of jaunty sermons. The Big Fisherman is no exception. The ordinariness that makes the book attractive when it deals with the minor characters becomes something of a handicap when it is called upon to picture the disciples together, or the eternal wonder of the Christ story...