Word: wondrousness
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...Francisco's wondrous Willie Mays, the game's highest-paid player (at $105,000), seemed to be bucking for a raise. In nine games, Mays hit seven home runs - which put him (let's see now) 15 games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace...
Surely Prince Sihanouk would do justice to the great tradition of his illustrious ancestors, the Khmers, if he were to shelve his wondrous scheme of contriving an international guarantee for Cambodia's freedom, and take the rugged road the lionhearted should roam...
Surely Prince Sihanouk would do justice to the great tradition of his illustrious ancestors, the Khmers, if he were to shelve his wondrous scheme of contriving an international guarantee for Cambodia's freedom, and take the rugged road the lionhearted should roam...
...capable of love, when Maggie-Marilyn sits beside him on a park bench. She appeals to his Pygmalion complex, the power to shape another human being. He pities her vulnerability, admires her gift for living in the present without justifying her actions or impulses. To her he is a wondrous king-of books. Each weds his own deepest inadequacy, his for love, hers for learning. In an exquisitely modulated performance, Barbara Loden never mimics Marilyn Monroe so far as to mock her, and when the self-destructive ordeal of drink and barbiturates begins, she becomes as pitiably touching...
...feel sadness not just for the late President and his family, but for all of mankind. It is suddenly brought to our attention in a jolting and terrifying way that, in spite of our wondrous technological achievements, we are little more than barbarians who haven't as yet learned to live successfully with our fellow...