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Word: wonderments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blackboard Jungle. Throngs of students, some armed with knives, roamed the graffiti-covered halls, smoking marijuana, playing touch football and frequently fighting. Only about half the mostly black student body of 2,800 showed up for classes on any given day. The school's administrators had lost control. No wonder a monitoring commission set up by a federal court described Redford as the worst high school in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Gunmen, but Smarties | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...shorter-range missiles, Gorbachev has been changing bargaining offers with lightning speed. Some Americans wonder whether, by the time the U.S. and its European allies work out an answer to the Kremlin's latest proposals, Gorbachev may not have one or several new ones. As the U.S. and its allies consider a response, they must remain alert to the possibility, as Britain's Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe put it, that the "swiftness of the Soviet hand could deceive the Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, Super-Zero? | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...that starts with the words "I sentence you . . ." Whether to slap the wrist or slam the cell door is a complex and partly subjective decision in which the particulars of the crime, the history of the culprit and the disposition of the judge all play a part. No wonder, then, that a stickup may draw anything from hard time to probation and defense lawyers maneuver to get their cases heard by judges known to go easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sentences by the Book | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...instead of a farmboy's quest for career maturity, the movie is more a day in the life of a working Boy Wonder. Yuppies could take notes on Foster's business sense as he pours over corporate reports, works late nights, and brashly persuades stodgy, old executives into backing his bold initiatives. He is even a swift jogger in a coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Secret of My Success | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

...constant and even increasing student population, when a number of History Departments all over the country have faced a decline which sometimes borders on crisis. Outsiders may not wish to notice these facts; but the Harvard community should be aware of them. And outsiders also might do well to wonder how it is that we have been able to serve the discipline so successfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History at Harvard | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

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