Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder the Egyptians turned out en masse for Nixon: Sadat told them Santa Claus was coming...
...wonder how I lost my Wits; Oh! Caelia, Caelia Caelia shits...
...this is dubious. Take for example the case of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which supplies Harvard with the bulk of its academic staff. Of the 550 students who were admitted to GSAS last fall, only eight were black. Under conditions such as these, it is little wonder that Harvard can make the claim it must go slow on affirmative action because it can not find enough qualified minority candidates for Faculty posts...
...Serious? So far, so good for the consumer. But while jawboning stores to cut prices temporarily, Butz declared that retail beef prices would have to go up again in coming months to maintain a strong cattle industry-a statement that might make keepers of family food budgets wonder how serious the Government is about fighting inflation. Washington suited a number of actions to Butz's words. The Government announced that it would step up purchase of as much as $100 million worth of pork and beef and store it for use in school lunch programs. Butz himself threatened...
...heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international espionage is thus transformed into something very like a traditional English detective story with the suspects figuratively locked in the English country house as the sleuth (Smiley) pokes around and the tantalized spectators wonder if he will dare pin it on the butler...