Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington watched and waited; at week's end began to wonder. At Donald Nelson's Saturday press conference, much of his anger seemed to have worn off. Asked a reporter: "You still mad, Don?" Nelson's surprised eyebrows lifted a notch...
...treated pretty miserable. They treated us that way during the depression. Didn't even say, 'Sorry, old man, we ain't got nothing for you today.' Just said, 'Get the hell out of here.' So now it ain't no wonder if some of the boys treat the company miserable." Production Chief Charles Sorenson said everything would turn out all right...
...wonder how many people think we've only got to win the war and everything will be hunky-dory? [Many people think this is what Churchill Pere thinks, but Churchill Pere knows he is too old to win both the war and the peace.] You and I are the English-speaking peoples, and the doughboy who came to the dance last night. It will be YOUR responsibility and MINE and HIS to see that the world becomes a fairer . . . place. . . . It won't be enough to go back [home after the war] and let the world go hang...
...Heard a waitress crack, when a soldier complained of cold soup: "No wonder. It's been waiting for you for two years...
...Today the struggle of man's spirit is against new and curious shackles...a seven days' wonder, a new child of tyranny-a political religion in which the leader of the state becomes, himself, an object of worship and reverence. This Nazi freak must fail, if only because men are not clods, because the spirit does live...