Word: wonderments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seven surgeries into a heroic fight against cancer. "If I die," he has said, "the team will be sold." Though the city is offering Williams a new stadium, he seems to be resisting signing any lease. A grim knowledge of trustees and their responsibility to highest bidders makes Baltimore wonder if this melancholy team is the final edition...
...while it seemed that moment would never come. Blustery winds forced the attempt's cancellation for three weeks. The local people sympathized with the Amerikanakia but told them they were attempting the impossible. Even the team's most optimistic members began to wonder what would happen if they did take off. After all, hadn't they brought three planes with them, just in case...
WHILE E4D's leaders are imploring seniors to give only to E4D, I cannot help but wonder what its agents are thinking. Suffice it to say that there are many members of the E4D staff who are also soliciting for the Class Gift. They correctly see no barrier to working for or donating to both funds; they perceive the Class Gift to be an apolitical gift, not an endorsement of the endowment. They reserve their political statements for donations...
Disney's financial performance is a wonder as well. From fiscal 1983 through 1987, annual revenues more than doubled, to $2.9 billion, while profits nearly quintupled, to $444.7 million. During that time the value of the company's stock has zoomed from $2 billion to nearly $10 billion. Says David Matalon, president of rival Tri-Star Pictures: "When it comes to Disney, there are two camps in this industry: extreme jealousy and admiration. I fall into the latter...
...were suitably outraged by this, but the worst was still to come. It is one thing to be defamed; it is another to be ignored, as the studio pretty much was after Walt Disney's death in 1966. Most galling of all, other people were working the old Disney wonder, and making it work at the box office. The Star Wars trilogy was putting a high-tech spin on the old Disney legerdemain. So, brilliantly, were Steven Spielberg's films: Close Encounters of the Third Kind used When You Wish upon a Star as a theme, and E.T. was "Bambi...