Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters on the eve of his trip to Moscow for this week's superpower summit. "I just wonder if they're getting the credit within your country that I think they deserve...
...Small wonder that the typical Soviet woman is far less interested in redefining her role than in reordering her life. Primarily, she wants greater control over her time: longer maternity leaves, flexible work schedules, part- time jobs. She would like to have time-saving conveniences that most Western women take for granted: electric mixers, cars, supermarkets for one- stop shopping. In many rural areas, the wish list is more fundamental: central heating, running water, sewerage. And everywhere, women share the sentiment expressed by Anna, 28, a language student at Moscow State University: "Soviet women don't want equality. We want...
...closest friend is an acne-ridden chap named Hamish who happens to be a mathematical wizard. Hamish is the goat of some brutish schoolboy pranks, but he is too intoxicated by his own theories to care very much. His presence gives rise to some authorial speculations on the wonder of numbers, their patterns and how they often reveal themselves to true adepts in pictures...
...Senate is a clubby place that takes pains to protect the minority from the majority. Helms has taken full advantage of that magnanimity, giving some to wonder, What is to protect the majority from Helms? His arsenal is primitive but effective: adding on dilatory amendments, filibustering, running hapless nominees through his congressional paddling machine. Some call it "porcupine power." As the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he stands at a crucial thoroughfare. Again and again, he has turned the path of legislation and confirmation into his private turnpike -- pay Jesse's toll or wait forever. Last week...
...times, Angell goes overboard, romanticizing all facets of the game--even the drunk fans in the bleachers--as larger than life. Angell seems to claim baseball as the wonder cure for all of society's larger problems. Baseball, he writes, "opens our eyes." Fans of the game, he argues, "are baffled but still learning, and we still keep coming back for more...