Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where are the basketball wonder boys now? Three of the four old players still live in the small town where they grew up. One is the mayor, a corrupt, old-time politician. Another is his campaign manager, a junior high school principal of self-acknowledged mediocrity. And then there is the big financer of the mayor's campaign, a strip-miner, protected by His Honor from the angry cries of eco-freaks. All three men sport a veneer of small town success. The fourth member of the group has left the town where he grew up, just...
Just when the boys are most full of self-pity, beginning to wonder whether they have any kind of claim to each other's friendship and support, the coach steps in with his old pep talk. He plays a recording of the last ten seconds of the big game, and as the boys sit up and listen the bitterness begins to fade. Then the bad feelings disappear altogether as the coach plays the old school fight song and everyone stands up to sing...
...Khrushchev's memoirs [May 6]: it was a very enlightening experience to look inside a man whom I had always thought of as a shoe-stomping tyrant and find that he was a very intelligent, concerned and compassionate individual. It is no wonder he was ousted: he was too human...
...autocratic and less tolerant of opposition, factors that contribute to growing dissatisfaction in the ranks of the machine. Says one alderman who publicly professes his loyalty to Daley but has deep private misgivings: "So much bowing and scraping is needed to maintain Daley's favor that I sometimes wonder. The party discipline is loosening up because a lot of guys are not willing to take it any more...
...widely held doubt about whether the press really needs an outside conscience, Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger has worried publicly that the council "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation" that could lead to Government intervention. While few members of the press claim immunity from legitimate criticism or correction, many wonder whether the news council will ever establish itself as an appropriate forum...