Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must wonder how long Stoeckel can keep up with this tenuous tie to the pigskin. How he can wait out the endless winter months in search of a fleeting spot on a 32-man roster. But until you see him cheering as chalkboard dream unfolds into a T.D. or smiling as the defensive unit mows down an illfated sweep, you can't chide him when he says "For me right now football is the thing that means the most, in my life. I've just go to give it another shot...
...WONDER what would happen if Percy Bysshe Shelley attended Harvard. Would he, as he did at Oxford, send to all professors copies of a pamphlet he wrote entitled "The Necessity of Atheism?" Would he begin the task, as he did in Ireland, of world reformation by organizing a "society of peace and love?" Would he distribute, as he did in Wales, a "Declaration of Rights" by sending up balloons and by enclosing it in bottles he cast into...
...story like this is just the sort of revenge a journalist would wreak. After years of bridging the gaps between White House prayer-breakfasts and White House horrors, and between Redskin games and carpet bombings, a good newsman must wonder between bombshells whether anything is sacred to men of government...
...POLICY. American officials speak about the Palestinians, but they do not really speak with them. No one has approached us. We are getting killed -our children, our women, our old people-by American arms, American planes, American bombs, American napalm. I wonder how the innocent American taxpayer feels about the tragedy for which he is paying...
...liberally sprinkles references to Lockley's book in his bestseller, and his introduction to Private Life's first American edition is pure hero worship. Yet the disciple never really followed the work, which scorns sentimentality and shuns anthropomorphism. Lockley was apparently born with a seventh sense -of wonder-and has expended most of it on rabbits, which he has studied in every imaginable sort of enclosure, even including a real burrow with specially installed infra-red lighting and glass sides. Thus observed, the symbols of timidity are revealed as citizens in a complex social structure, full of dominant...