Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed Project Vanguard. In retrospect, it was no wonder that the U.S.S.R. got into space first...
...over and rates may level off. While Anderson will be competing with the heavy seasonal demand by business for funds to finance the building of Christmas inventories, the fact that the issue was so heavily oversubscribed suggests that the 5% note was anything but a one-shot wonder...
...Doctor Zhivago has already shown, the sense of life in Pasternak is heightened by the flashing vigor of his imagery; sometimes he welds disparate images to startle the reader into a rebirth of wonder. At the first patter of a summer drizzle, "dust swallowed up the pills of raindrops." In an offshore storm, "skies crouch lower/ Flying downward/ Steep/ Sea slopes/ And finger the deep/ With wings of clamorous gulls...
...guess only Cliffies and Harvard students have them....I wonder who has number...
...said, 'I wonder who does have number...