Word: astounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOON--Modern art never ceases to amaze, intrigue, and astound, whether comprehensible or not. Since it's usually not, Fine Arts 170 is a good last chapter to the mystery...
...single slum tenement room with two machines, today it has a new plant producing 200,000 toothbrushes a day, grosses 6,000,000 Hong Kong dollars annually, and claims to supply 95% of all toothbrushes sold in Indonesia. Its prices (17? for a box of eight toothbrushes) astound American and South American buyers...
...golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
...just the reason that the Colleges have functioned so well socially. Since the masters can't do much to make their College's training grounds for learning, they make them training grounds for community living. This resulted in a liberal attitude towards rules and residents' whims that would astound the Harvard undergraduate, who haggles nervously with a Yard cop when caught violating a room permission and thinks he has won a major triumph if a new drink-dispensing machine is installed in an entry basement...
...cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...