Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after, Hilton decided that Dallas needed a new hotel-and he built it by a fabulous deal that Dallas still recalls with wonder. He started by persuading George Loudermilk, an ex-undertaker and a large landholder, to give him a 99-year lease on some Dallas property he owned. Then he used the leased land as collateral for a $500,000 bank loan. Hilton put up $100,000 of his own money, and raised $200,000 from friends. He needed another $150,000, and he borrowed it from the contractor who was to build the hotel. Then...
...that struggle, cooperation between the U.S. and Britain is "the linchpin of the structure," said Monty. "None of us can stand alone and none are doing so today ... In Western Europe, the eyes and thoughts of everyone are ever turning westward . . . They look to the English-speaking nations and wonder if they can count on their help: definitely. We must not let them have any doubts...
...last week the Denver Area Welfare Council, without whose approval no organization can get community chest funds, had recognized Laradon as a member. That was the first help Joe had had, but it might not be enough. "Sometimes when the going gets rough," says he, "I wonder if the whole thing's worth while. But when I look at these kids, my own and all the others, I see that...
...story of Cat Island [TIME, Nov. 7] is told in full by Frederick O'Brien in his book Atolls of the Sun (Century Co.; 1922) . . . I don't wonder that it could not be found on maps, because Cat Island is not its name. Its real name is Tetiaroa, and it lies about 30 miles north of Tahiti...
Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...