Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venereal disease, although readily controllable with today's wonder drugs, is increasing at an alarming rate among U.S. teen-agers in some areas. Latest figures: 200,000 persons between 11 and 19 now have VD (more than half the number of total cases), and by current estimates, 200,000 more will be infected next year. To find out why, the American Social Hygiene Association announced that it will spend $92,000 on a wide-ranging study. Items to be investigated: teen-age sex behavior, relationships between VD and juvenile delinquency, social and economic background of VD victims...
...curious position for the man whom the Opposition only ten months before was calling "the boneless wonder," who only 17 months ago had won a triumphal election on a platform of "working for peace." Elegant, unruffled, a good party man, priding himself on the quiet adjustment and the deft compromise, Eden had built a reputation as a diplomatic technician par excellence. But last week the diplomatic technician had plunged recklessly for force, the popular Prime Minister was under a shattering hail of critical fire unequaled in violence since the time of Neville Chamberlain...
...midst of their country's roaring oil boom, thoughtful Venezuelans sometimes wonder what might happen to their economy if some adverse development-widespread utilization of atomic energy, perhaps, or big new oil finds in other countries-rubbed the bloom off the boom. Industrial growth based on abundant iron ore and the huge hydroelectric potential of the Caroni promises to put a second powerful prop under the economy, and make Venezuela's future more secure...
...Church of England: ''The policy of the government, no less than the policy of the opposition, can be supported with Christian convictions." Said the Archdeacon of Bath: "If some one over a number of years pinches me and kicks me and bruises me, is it any wonder that I land out and hit him down...
Genesis describes Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as "very fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...