Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the pageant Yankee Prince Teddy presided over all. indestructible, a mixture, according to one visiting British statesman, "of St. Vitus and St. Paul ... a great wonder of nature." T.R.'s own overall judgment of his Administration: 1) ''The most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before the law"; 2) "It was clear to all ... that the labor problem in the country had entered upon a new phase"; 3) "We were at absolute peace, and there was no nation from whom we had anything to fear." The loyal opposition's point...
...often, when baptism is deferred so long, I cannot help but wonder whether there is the slightest chance of the child being Christianly brought up in the church or home. The fact that many persons bring their offspring to be baptized in the same spirit in which they have taken them to be vaccinated reflects a lack of spiritual perception on the part of those parents...
...going to blast you to pieces if you don't get back in line. It also helps to take off for your pass as if you were leaving the scene of a bank robbery. With contestants careening down the road like bank robbers, the wonder was that there were no accidents...
Ghost's Ghost. Hoskin had "gone Eastern" while working for a career-counseling firm in London. He shaved his head, grew a beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and continue to do so, for "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going...