Word: wondrousness
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...hurried back to the big, red brick U.S. embassy in Teheran, where his staff, in shirtsleeves, worked full speed. Messages winged between Teheran and Washington, between Washington and London. The West's diplomats faced an opportunity they had muffed once before. The challenge: to convert Iran's wondrous reprieve into a sustained survival. The need: to support Iran's economy until it can support itself...
...Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write a letter to President Juan Perón. "I do not want to return to Spain," the letter said, "and I know...
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...emergency fund to be used in the project, and State Attorney General Ross F. Jones began planning a grandiose attack. Secret agents, some disguised as movie scouts, drifted into Short' Creek. Last month the great "Love-nest raid" began to shape up in all its wondrous detail...
...Hecht thinks there is a future for writers on TV: "It's a sort of wondrous version of the medicine show. You do a dance, sing a bird song, and then you pitch the snake oil. But the important thing is that it is not the entertainment that the sponsor is selling, but the snake oil or the beer. Just as long as his beer sells-which might be because it's a hot summer-he will let the writer have the upper hand...