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Word: wondering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deprivation often nags Americans visiting abroad. They note the frequency of London's shiny red double-decker buses, the scrubbed-clean streets of Paris and the tranquil, carefully manicured parks of Frankfurt. At a time when public services in the U.S. are in such a mess, Americans wonder how the Europeans manage to do so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: How the Swedes Do It | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...intimacies of play, courtship, sex and social ritual and their substitutes from pets to waterbeds - and the only real discovery is how little we learn even from the monkeys. In his first popular book, Morris wrote of "the sexiest primate.'' which made British Critic Brigid Brophy wonder whether he could be meaning some telegenic prince of the church. Now, in Intimate Behaviour, there is far more about the businessman's handshake or the surgeon's scalpel than about the lovers' kiss, and even the lovers' kiss is grimly labored as No. 1 of "twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Game | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

Figuring a difficulty ratio of about four miles running to every mile of swimming, it is no wonder that Baughman says, "I think we have to train more then any other type of athlete, except somebody said maybe figure skaters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Baughman Leads a Watery Existence | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

Jack saves Ann from a fate worse than death; when Kong comes to reclaim his girl, Denham and crew knock him out with gas bombs. Denham takes a captive Kong back to civilization where he intends to exhibit the world's eighth wonder and make millions. His capitalist venture is cut short when Kong breaks loose and terrorizes New York in his search for his lost love. The great beast finds Ann and carries her to the top of the Empire State Building, but there is no shelter for Kong. Single-engine bi-planes attack him; riddled with bullets...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Unexpurgated Kong | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

Split Hairs. A dramatic life, in the eye of great events. A dramatic death, with the ink barely dry on the Stalin-Hitler Pact. No wonder interest in Trotsky has persisted into the new revolutionary age. His history of the Russian Revolution is a Marxist classic. My Life, his tendentious autobiography, is a perennial paperback. Since January, at least four new books have been published about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage Red | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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