Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes wonder, who is this Fairbank who keeps creeping into your headlines with a red label? Your photograph in itself is certainly most disquieting...
Your story of Admiral Hyman Rickover makes the average citizen wonder just how many conscientious, devoted Navy officers have been eased out of the service by that smug, tax-supported little social club, the Selection Board...
...engineer was deliberately fading out his voice on the transmission between Miami and Manhattan. On the air, Godfrey demanded: "I wonder who the guy is . . . Wonder who that could be? I wonder if he likes his job? Maybe he doesn't like what he's doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge...
...corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow...
...into practice as a small-town doctor's assistant, Lucas came upon more shocking specimens: doctors who let old, indigent patients die to get them out of the way, doctors who refused to answer night calls, a doctor who was a thief. As for Kristina, she was a wonder as a part-time nurse in the shabby county hospital, but as a doctor's wife she was a social embarrassment...