Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little wonder then that turnstiles clicked like Castanets as combined major league opening-day attendance figures hit an alltime high. Baseball '76, which for weeks had seemed unlikely to get launched at all, was off to a rocketing start. The long legal arguments over the rights of spring, at least for the moment, proved no contest for the game's own rites of spring...
...terrifying things with this disease," Conant says, "is that they're on a dangerous crevice of 65 pounds and engage in vocational and avocational activities and get in trouble. Even though they may look like prisoners or war victims, they still engage in sports and you wonder how they can do it. Characteristically they are high achievers, intelligent students. Even in starvation, their cerebral activity strives on. I feel most helpless with this disease. The magnitude of self-denial is so great that it's hard to break through...
...wonder what Neruda felt in those last days as he lay dying, listening to the chattering of the machine-guns...
...come closer so that they could talk. "Then began the most ludicrous scene I had ever witnessed. Instead of simply turning around and walking over to me, he kept his face away from me and walked backward, one rickety step at a time. It certainly made me wonder how that man had made it so far in the world." Johnson was obsessed with Robert Kennedy, whom he considered as skilled and ruthless as himself in acquiring and exercising power. L.B.J. resisted all the Kennedy supporters who importuned him to put Bobby on the ticket in 1964. He felt that...
Satterfield's voice is pure, clear, controlled and surprising in its strength. Her material is diverse, including some old Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Gershwin, Miriam Makeba, the theme from an old movie and a jazzy version of the Black National Anthem. She sings everything well, but her tight phrasing works best on the more romantic ballads, especially "Love is Stronger Far than We," Mangione's "Look to the Children" and the title...