Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military support, if only from South Africa and a few others, in fending off the guerrillas. A likelier prospect is that the guerrilla war will turn into a broader civil war as the various black factions, separated by tribal, personality and ideological divisions, battle each other for power. Small wonder, then, that more than 13,000 of Rhodesia's dwindling number of whites chose to emigrate last year, and that between now and the April elections another 10,000 are expected to leave...
...exactly the Triple Crown. But for the winning jockey it meant deliverance. When he climbed aboard Father Duffy last Thursday, Boy Wonder Steve Cauthen, 18, winner of the Triple Crown and just under $5 million last year, had not won a race since New Year's Day. His losing streak of 110 straight races, one of the worst ever for a major jockey, was a stupefying slump for The Kid who once won 23 of 54 races in a single week...
Sonnenberg was exquisitely conscious of dress as costume. In the '40s and '50s his style of accouterment was a wonder of Manhattan-cane, tight four-button suits, massive cuff links, a bowler hat, and a mustache that almost rivaled Dali's in local celebrity: not the zigzag antennae of the Spaniard but a drooping bunch of Habsburg bristle, which in his last years came to resemble the questing barbels of an old and sagacious carp...
...unite people and move them toward either belligerent or peaceful goals, the slogan rates as one of man's most ingenious and economical verbal inventions. So the ubiquity of slogans in modern times is understandable, and it probably does more good than harm. Still, there is reason to wonder whether the use-and abuse-of slogans has not at last resulted in a period of fatigue, a sort of slump that might be called sloganosis...
...said many migrant worker children drop out of school rather than miss so much work, and their lack of education "keeps the cycle going." "You tend to lose interest in the work and wonder if it's all worth it since you're always behind," she added...