Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted characters like Negro Tom Williams, Editor White's friend, who was thought to be dangerous because he talked wildly, but who was just a night owl seeing too much going on under...
...December 1939 to a dispirited 102 in April. In June the Index was back up to 114, and continued advances of basic industries in July indicated that it was rising towards 120. Whenever this happens, businessmen who have been burned before begin looking for signs of an inventory glut, wonder how long the recovery can last. But last week they saw few signs of an inventory glut. Production was not piling up in warehouses; it was being consumed. That meant that the production recovery still had a green light...
...tense silence tugged at the nerves of the vast throng crowded into Berlin's big, barnlike Kroll Opera House one night last week. Behind the splendor of flashing uniforms and shining boots there was a great straining wonder. Only a few hours before, Adolf Hitler had announced the secret summoning of his war Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with...
Patrick Joseph Dollan, Lord Provost of Glasgow, told Glasgow schoolboys that he had been a pacifist during World War I, was now a "repentant sinner": "I am beginning to wonder why it was that a good many of us in years gone by scorned the idea of training the young to defend their country...
Next day the British Air Ministry solemnly announced that no planes of theirs did any shooting that day over Tobruch. Thus the Italian people were left free to wonder if one of the most popular candidates to succeed II Duce fell under the fire of an Italian Fiat...