Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parents all over the U.S. one night last week looked at their children with uneasy wonder. Was it possible that a seemingly normal little boy of eight could murder his mother and father in their sleep...
...compete so hard as to drive marginal producers out of the business? Snapped Donner: "And when did you stop beating your wife? If you are thinking of Studebaker-Packard, we didn't drive them to their present con dition. They drove themselves there. Did you ever stop to wonder what they did with the profits of the lush war years, if they reinvested them in the business...
...summer school her instructor barely disguises his leer. Her younger sister pruriently prods her with questions. And Stan Walters shifts rapidly from guilt and remorse to jealousy and suspicion, accuses her of having invited the attack. Gradually, Toni moves into a limbo beyond sanity, and begins to wonder if in some way she had not asked for what happened. At length, her puzzled and angered parents seem to join the enemy, and Toni, trying to play the role she has been assigned, is last seen in a Pullman sleeper, giving herself to a salesman who has been kind...
Even in the electronics industry, chock-full of whiz kids, Charles Bates Thornton stands out as a wonder. He was an Air Force colonel at 28, the planning director of Ford Motor Co. at 32, the operating boss of Hughes Aircraft at 35. Now-at 45-he heads one of the fastest-growing electronics makers: Beverly Hills' Litton Industries. In five years under Thornton, Litton's yearly sales have risen from $3,000,000 to $83 million, are expected to top $110 million in the twelve months ending next July. Last week "Tex" Thornton was ready to bite...
Whatever else it is or is not. this is a book of profound patriotic piety which glorifies Arthur as the father of his country, and finds in the childlike wonder and faith of medieval England the crucible of future English greatness...