Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people began to wonder. Following Minister Gardiner's flat announcement that he was running, white-haired Minister St. Laurent declared nobly: "I believe that any member whom the party selects would feel it honorable to accept. I am doing nothing to influence the choice of the party...
...above all others, has made life all but impossible for independent Argentine newspapers and newsmen was made honorary president of the Argentine Press Syndicate last week. President Juan Domingo Perón accepted the honor with bland grace-and no wonder. Like their new head, members of the Peronista-minded syndicate believe that the press should be the tool of government, not an instrument of freedom...
...around Central America, and something has got to be done to stop it. Look at that Figueres, a tool of Arévalo. God knows what he's up to now that he's got hold of Costa Rica. And all those Dominican and Nicaraguan exiles. I wonder if those birds in all those plots realize that Central America may be heading not for ordinary war but a bloody clash of races and classes...
...weak," he admitted after a lurching false step in the throne room, "but otherwise I feel fine." Late that night, when he strode out on to the palace balcony to greet his people for the fourth time, his daughter-in-law the Crown Princess Louise gaped in wonder. "How can he take it?" she asked. "He's fantastic...
...nobody can ever know enough about him). It sees too little of his dreadful uncertainty, his numbed amazement over his own drifting, his agonized self-vilification. It understands too little of him as "passion's slave." Between the cutting and the conception of the role, it is small wonder that when, early in the play, Olivier comes to The time is out of joint; 0 cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! he all but throws the crucial couplet away...