Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Thomas Wolfe, another lanky, literary Southerner whose father was a stonemason, is striking. Baker says for that reason he was unable to read Look Homeward, Angel until he was 45. "I heard those train whistles in the night, and they spoke of something else to me than the wonder of America." What they spoke of, he says, was trainmen out of work as the Depression deepened...
...came, he says, one afternoon when he had been sitting for some hours on the cold marble floor of a corridor in the Senate Office Building, outside a closed meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I began to wonder why, at the age of 37, I was wearing out my hams waiting for somebody to come...
...relation" exists between TV viewing by small boys and aggressive behavior. Little girls, significantly, did not show any increase in such aggressive behavior. But a new project Eron has since begun indicates that they do now. His explanation: today TV has more violent female role models-including those in Wonder Woman and Charlie's Angels-than it had before...
...dialysis (as well as for kidney transplant operations). The program now covers some 44,000 patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection is 60,000 patients at an estimated cost exceeding $2 billion a year. Some observers wonder whether the program has been efficient. Even more important is the question of whether society can afford the program...
Although Harvard, injury-free at last, won the contest, the victory could only have made Coach Bob Scalise wonder about what his charges might have done in the crucial Princeton game two weeks ago had they been as healthy...