Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moreover, he suggested that the degree of independence from Moscow is less important than the basic nature of Communism. Said Kissinger: "We are entitled to certain skepticism about the sincerity of declarations of independence which coincide so precisely with electoral self-interest. One need not be a cynic to wonder at the decision of the French Communists, traditionally perhaps the most Stalinist party in Europe, to renounce the Soviet concept of dictatorship of the proletariat without a single dissenting vote among 1,700 delegates, as they did at their party congress in February 1976, when all previous party congresses...
...throw in the sponge on Laetrile? The FDA could run a few tests on the alleged wonder drug to assure itself of its basic innocuousness, slap a Surgeon General-type warning on it ("The Government has determined that Laetrile, alias vitamin B17, can do nothing for your health"), and let it loose in the marketplace, along with such other pharmaceutical miracles as cold tablets, skin creams and vaginal deodorants. Under the Government's nodding supervision, the purity of the product might then be assured, the flourishing black market in Laetrile-which has netted some of its pushers millions...
Trustman says he has trouble understanding how today's coeducation can work. "The prior system was probably repressive and imperfect but I wonder what I would have been doing and thinking about if half my dorm were girls. I wouldn't have gotten any work done!" he muses. When he and his wife visited a student in the Quad last year, he found Cabot Hall "excruciating." He was amazed to greet an undergraduate in her slip and watch her stroll into a bathroom occupied by several men. "It was like seeing a woman walk into a men's room...
...most spectacular of these, when viewed personally and from below, can inspire wonderment and envy. Who could not feel underpaid when contemplating the $1.662 million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really...
...explanation is simple: as a courtesy to travelers to Cuba, the U.S. has lowered the embargo a tiny notch. Tourists may bring back up to $100 worth of merchandise, but otherwise, all Cuban goods are contraband in the U.S. Aha, a traveler might wonder: a plot to protect U.S. cigar makers? Probably not. "Cuban tobacco would be a stimulus to American cigars," insists Carl J. Carlson, executive director of the Cigar Association of America. Since the embargo began, total cigar sales in the U.S. have receded from more than 6 billion a year to just 5.3 billion...