Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor to have any more"), the Indian population in East Africa shot up 74% in the past ten years. "The Asians," the Asians say, "are in Africa to stay." So far, the whites have grudgingly let them, but some Asians are beginning to wonder: What about the blacks...
Just then another swan boat docked. "He pedals it like a bicycle," Jessie noticed. "No wonder it goes so slowly." She grabbed Clipper's hand and ran aboard. "Wish we could go swimming," she said to a little boy beside...
...logic was well taken that described the drift of a student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more...
Though a Harvard man for two years, he feels that, "it's a little like old home week when I come back here to sing. I wonder why that should be? Is it because we're from similar backgrounds? You know, Harvard has a national reputation for being cold and standoffish, but its audiences aren't like that...
...stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon after entry into the gravity-free state, his vision will return. His respiration will become steady and slow. His heart will still run fast from the excitement, but he will not be uncomfortable, not even afraid. He may wonder if this uncontrollable thing may suddenly and prematurely rush him back to earth again...