Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them as editor of Time Inc.'s International Book Society, before becoming TIME'S Books editor in 1968. Foote is still fond of children's books, but feels that what children need in books today is not "blobs and treacle but heroic nourishment, a sense of wonder, and pictures with enough texture and detail to be worth poring over again and again." He remembers "getting up at dawn, creeping into the room where N.C. Wyeth's Scribner's Classics were kept, and long before I could read, brooding over the pictures in Robinson Crusoe...
...letter was signed Cannabis Rex for the Broward Marijuana Dealers Association. Such charity by the counterculture set is not new (TIME, Sept. 17), but one could wonder at the reaction in the upper councils of the association when the organization learns what Jody Dietrich hopes to grow up to be: a policeman...
Shockley sat calmly behind a table during the press conference looking unperturbed. He is 63 years old, short, gray-haired and innocent looking. He never gets excited or raises his voice. He looks gentle and unimportant. People wonder what he ever did to raise any furor. And then he says things--very calmly always--like "I'd like to talk about the way we can trace the intelligence of Negroes to their percentage of Caucasian blood...
When the municipality pays $2.5 million for a $2 million turbine, if the newspaper is out of business, no one will expose the mayor, city inspectors and contractors who conspired to share the $500,000 boodle money. The taxpayers will simply have to pay the $500,000 and vaguely wonder what hit them...
...spent my Wonder-Bread years in New Haven, Conn., and perhaps that's why, as a freshman, it took me three years to discover that the advertisements in Cambridge for 'The Game' were not intended to increase ticket sales for the upcoming Harvard-Yale football match. You see, that's what 'The Game' means down in New Haven--not the Massachusetts state lottery...