Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just now I'm reading Spinoza." One might wonder what the 17th century Dutch-Jewish mathematical rationalist would have had to say to a retired racketeer. Perhaps this, from Spinoza's Ethics: "He who cannot govern his desires, and keep them in check with the fear of the laws ... cannot enjoy with contentment the knowledge and love...
...flake, she explains, is in fact clusters of crystals that become stuck together as they fall. She tells how the crystals themselves form, and how snow changes once it falls. It is useful information, especially for skiers, who should wax their boards differently for different types of snow. Small wonder, she notes, that the Eskimos have more than two dozen words in their language to describe various kinds of snow. Yet the substance, which slowed
Benjamin Civiletti went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week to begin confirmation hearings on his appointment as the new U.S. Deputy Attorney General. The committee said last week the Marston case would certainly be a primary area of questioning, but we should seriously wonder whether they will bear in mind the statement made by Gil Scutti upon his January 21 resignation as the chief of Marston's criminal division immediately following Marston's removal. Evoking the "stay away" advice given by Nixon White House aide Gordon Strachan before the Senate Watergate Committee five years ago, Scutti said...
...People wonder why modern art is so large," Motherwell said, responding to the audience's awe at the size of his murals. "The obvious answer never seems to occur to them. Lofts in New York City, where so much of the Expressionist Movement grew, are 100 feet long by 20 feet wide. The artist's tendency is to fill up the environment...
...then again, to see George Hughes's artistic man-up endeavor from Cochrane and McDonald in the second period makes you wonder why it can't be done like that against anybody, let alone a team who came into Watson riding a 12-game winning streak...