Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India, productions of Kathakali cause audiences to curse the bad guys (red-bearded) and cheer the good guys (green-faced). Broadway audiences were less demonstrative but found that the blood-and-wonder spectacle had color, dash, the spice of novelty and the charm of skillfully stylized performances...
...time the machine finally wears out, the U.S. homeowner will have got his money's worth, and be ready to buy a new one. The perfect, unbreakable machine is many long years away. But in that dazzling, much-to-be-desired future, no one will have to wonder why the repairman cannot repair. He won't have...
...Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred brown"; they can never meet anyone's gaze; they have hangdog expressions and poor postures. In fact, the struggle is so unequal that it is a wonder it takes the capitalist underground twelve years and more than 1,000 pages...
...Inevitable Governor. It was small wonder that many of the ordinary citizens of Little Rock thought of their situation as a dream-a nightmare-in which they had played no part. But Presbyterian Ogden pointed up the meaning for ordinary citizens and would-be extremists alike. "This had to happen someplace in the South," said he. "It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard...
BREADMAKERS are in a jam with Food and Drug Administration. FDA charged that big Continental Baking Co. falsely labeled its Wonder and County Fair buttermilk brands as enriched breads. Agency will crack down on bakers that puff their breads with excessive health claims...