Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather Noah." In London, 54-year-old Archeologist Sykes scratched his white mane in wonder...
...wonder of our society is not why feeble-minded people get into state prisons, but why feebleminded people can get into state legislatures," Miriam Van Waters, Superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, said last night. She spoke on "Crime and Culture" before the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Radcliffe's Agassiz House...
Said he: "When I hear people speaking of reducing taxation, and, at the same time, see the costs of the social services rising rapidly, in response very often to the demands of the same people, I sometimes rather wonder whether they appreciate to the full the old adage that 'we cannot have our cake...
...finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking the law into his own hands). Before finally arriving at the right answer, Payne and his vigilante friends string up a number of their enemies to nearby trees...