Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small wonder his office is in a state of "complete chaos...
Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
...shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers to the county seat for a sit-down demonstration demanding Federal relief. Upshot is a wild battle between "Red"-fearing townsfolk and desperate rustics. Dozens of both are killed when a building collapses, leaving Ned in a hospital to wonder if sister Wilhelmina will carry on, readers to wonder whether Author Rothermell's gory climax is not too convenient an ending...
...wonder how many of my acquaintances have written to you after reading that how to thumb a ride is "a trick unknown to Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...described how it felt to be defeated: "The first half hour you believe that the earth has slipped from beneath your feet, that the stars above your head have paled and faded, and you wonder what the Senate will do without you. . . . But within another half hour there comes a peace...