Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Occasionally, she would spend time with a male friend and wonder, for a moment, whether the friendship had potential for any other kind of relationship. Unfortunately the men concerned never seemed to share the thoughts...
...exploitation of cheap labor. In 1969, two-thirds of the Chilean people lived on less than $2 a day; 600,000 children had brain damage from malnutrition; 350,000 Chileans were homeless; 300,000 unemployed. And the copper companies continued to extract profits--$9 billion since 1900. Small wonder, then, that every worker interviewed in the film understands the meaning of U.S. involvement in the economy...
Training has been tough, but in some ways we've got it made. There are so many new weapons and intelligence systems backing us up that I sometimes wonder why we have to do the exercise junk at all. The worst is having to make a six-kilometer forced march with 45 lbs. of gear (including our M-16), move into a defensive position, and hit a number of targets-all in an hour. They tell us the reason is that if we do go into battle, there may be more guys on the other side...
...microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have 6,000 people who do nothing but try to interpret voices and microwave stuff from the other side. If you think that's a lot, the Soviets are supposed to have 30,000 ferrets listening to us. I wonder what they think they're gonna hear...
...celebrated literary types. In Paris, apart from a couple of boorish flashes of temper, he lived an abundant life and made his strikingly craggy face familiar around the boulevards. He also continued to write and yearn for literary immortality. Even when he did gripe about reviewers, one could wonder whether he really cared what they were saying-or even quite understood. "They just said I was a bad writer, bad grammar, blah, blah, blah," he told one interviewer. It was as if the fine points of writing did not matter that much to his work. And perhaps they...