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Word: wondering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even without freshman wonder Alex Vik and co-captain Steve McConnell, the Harvard golf team stroked its way to an easy victory over Brown and Boston College yesterday...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Golfers Down Brown and B.C. In 3-Way Meet | 4/29/1975 | See Source »

...hears that we must maintain a huge and powerful military in order to defend the free world. I agree. I only wonder about the company we keep in this free world. Does it include Franco? President Park of South Korea? President Thieu? The military junta in Chile? Or Brazil? Does it include the recent military leaders of Greece to whom we gave millions of dollars in military...

Author: By Robert F. Kennedy jr., | Title: Youth: A rememberance of idealism past | 4/29/1975 | See Source »

...little wonder, then, that parents, whose consent has never even been asked, sometimes have reacted violently when busing is imposed on them by force. The violence and rebellion that has accompanied busing in Boston is a natural feature of a plan based on force...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: The Failure of Busing | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...children to their schools. The result is not to make racial differences the same as any other individual differences, but to make them the basis for the way people are treated. This seems to be the opposite of the result desired by all opposed to racism. Is it any wonder, then, that busing, which is implicitly racist, has not increased racial acceptance in Boston, but rather increased racial prejudice among some victims...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: The Failure of Busing | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Italian Coinage for $1,200. Such merchandise features an airiness that makes spider webs appear cumbersome, and offers gears so refined that they ought to be able to do logarithms. Yet the superbikes' forward motion does not differ substantially from that of the cheaper models. Non-aficionados often wonder whether it might be cheaper to buy ten $100 models, replacing each one as it gets worn out. Or, more likely, stolen; bicycle theft has become America's fastest-growing crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Full Circle: In Praise of the Bicycle | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

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