Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist to my hotel this morning and he tried to lobby me. He said you offered...
...mood of the conference, grim at the start, had perked up considerably by closing day. Said one departing delegate: "I wonder if their enthusiasm will fade when they come down to earth back home." Replied another: "Why should it? It's unrealistic not to believe in miracles these days...
Bevin: "Mr. Vishinsky spends so much time looking up proverbs and quotations, I wonder he has any chance to sleep...
...housing, hired 20 architects, put them to work on the same drawing boards that once held his aircraft blueprints. Three months ago, the first mass-produced parts of his houses began rolling off the assembly lines. When the buildings were put up in Munich, Germans gaped with joy and wonder. The Messerschmitt houses were almost as ingenious as the Messerschmitt planes...
...Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...