Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Washington, Frank McCarthy was a boy wonder about whom no one knew very much. Like General Marshall, he was a V.M.I, graduate. His work for the General had been confidential. At State, his job will be to streamline the Department, bring order out of the endless paper shuffling...
Traditionally law-abiding Canadians have long been proud of the fact that their country has had far less crime than its U.S. neighbor. Last week they began to wonder: a wave of murder and robbery had suddenly swept across Ontario. On both sides of the border people asked themselves if this was the start of the often-forecast, greatly feared surge of postwar crime...
...President had to get on with the overwhelming business of history. Last week, having loosed a new force upon the world and welcomed a new ally into the Pacific war, a part of his business was to wait and to wonder, like other men, whether all that he had done had been worthwhile...
Physicians wondered what would happen. Did people generally know what the wonder drug is good for? Only years of hard work in laboratories and clinics will finally determine what sulfa and penicillin will and will not do. But doctors are now reasonably certain that...
...store for me. I had to decide where I would be of most help to the Russian people - perishing in one of Stalin's prisons or living as a free man somewhere in the world, knowing the truth and speaking it out." Non-Russian readers may wonder why the choice was so difficult...