Word: wondrousness
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Last week the happy thieves, presuming that the wheels of justice will free José and Abdias will be able to rejoin him when his sentence runs out, confidently made plans for future adventures in the wondrous backlands of Pernambuco, where even dead men tell tales...
...exciting possibility is that the chain can be broken into even smaller sections and that one of them will do the wondrous job of natural ACTH. Other fragments may have other desirable medical effects, and the fragments may be small enough to be synthesized cheaply...
...fabulous oil wealth, coming in an ever-faster flow, that powers the boom. Under a sense-making profit split with the foreign companies that produce petroleum, the Venezuelan treasury gets about $1,500,000 a day in one form or another. What the money does is downright wondrous...
...Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the particular faction that he favors within the party. Also making for splintering is a freehanded provision of the law, designed to cover campaign expenses, that requires the government to pay each group $1.30 in advance for every vote it expects to get. (After the election, they have to pay back...
...single country in the world who believes in the power of a Supreme Being to join in a mighty, simultaneous, intense act of faith ... a personal prayer [for] a just and lasting peace. If this mass dedication launched an unending campaign for peace, supported by prayer, I am certain wondrous results would ensue...