Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter how many car crashes or family arrests occur, the atmosphere in Fernwood is torpid. Many of the laughs stem from people's misunderstandings of the simplest things. The real threats come from family and close friends. Mary's kitchen telephone is an instrument of bedevilment. The wonder is that she still picks it up; she has rarely heard any good or even neutral news over it. Many lines, especially in the kitchen scenes, can seem funny and pathetic at once. Informed by a caller of yet another crisis, Mary replies, "I can't talk...
...wonder how seriously the curators consider their responsibilities to preserve for future generations the artworks in their possession. If the curators plan to hold such events in the future, it is time for the museum's works to be placed in more responsible care. Raymond...
...given itself a spinach image--people take the course because they think they should learn what it teaches, even if it hurts. Others honestly expect the course to be interesting. For whatever reason they are there, they sit in large numbers and wonder whether the rewards of the course justify the work. Around the country, the Times says, undergraduates, find their introductory economics courses disappointing. Ec 10 provides no exception...
...Wonder who your wives and girl friends are out with tonight?" cooed Tokyo Rose to GIs in the Pacific in World War II, hoping that her infamously seductive lilt would chip away at their morale. In fact, there never was a Tokyo Rose. The name was given by GIs to twelve or more English-speaking women who, beginning in 1942, regularly broadcast out of Tokyo and other points. By her own admission, one of the sultry voices belonged to Mrs. Iva Toguri d' Aquino, now 59, who operates a gift shop in Chicago-and is still thought...
...Small wonder that both come to resent the turtles' aquarium, that "little bedsitter of an ocean" as William calls it, as yet another abridgement of natural law. Resentment breeds a conviction: even though William and Neaera would much rather skulk on as victims, heroics are called for. When they learn that they have been sharing a common turtle fantasy, they bristle; privacy has become their shell, and it is not to be discarded lightly. Further shocks await them. They are appalled when the urge to free the turtles grows into a tidal compulsion. William complains: "Whatever this awful thing...