Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, Teddy Ruxpin, the talking toy bear, has delighted youngsters with tales in which he and his friend Grubby outwit the Mudblups, Bounders and assorted other villains. Too bad Teddy couldn't provide a last-minute rescue or happy ending for his creator, Worlds of Wonder. Last week the two-year-old Fremont, Calif., firm filed for bankruptcy protection. During the six months ending Sept. 30, WOW lost $53.5 million as sales fell to $72.7 million. During the same period a year ago, the firm earned $2.8 million on sales of $85.2 million...
...meaning every year of the past 24, "my blood starts flowing as soon as the holidays are over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
This sense of Ethiopia as a bottomless sinkhole for Western aid inspires some skeptical experts to wonder whether such assistance is really wise. Regular international rescue efforts do little to encourage recipients to learn to feed themselves, the skeptics argue, and a tougher approach just might force Ethiopia to mend its ways. "What will aid do?" asked Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce...
...interstates called Ohio Afternoon ("Ohio fun . . . diesels dragging out on Highway 1"), she gets all misty. When Mark and Mike have at a couple of Zez Confrey ivory ticklers like Dizzy Fingers and Coaxing the Piano, their doofus grins proclaim the triumph of diligent drudgery over inspiration. No wonder Miss Reeves, their music teacher, is beaming...
...nothing on that evening was certain except the world was changing and that small assembly of Soviets and Americans was witness to a rare act within the larger drama. As he went out into the night, Helms cast a glance at Lincoln with his chin in his hand. "I wonder what old Abe would think," Helms mused. Then he added his own yearning. "Maybe this time we can make it work...