Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, I'm too wimpy to take a stand against the owner of the "Eighth Wonder of the World." I meekly waited for my plane to land, a pathetic display of irrationally troubled conscience...
...that all you're eating?" she asked. When I said yes, she squeezed my arm and smiled. "No wonder you're so little," she said in a congratulatory tone...
...Germany accept that idea? Will they want to be forever, or even for long, members of an alliance whose purpose, unstated but unmistakable, is not to protect them from others but to protect others from them? If that is the German Question for the '90s, there is reason to wonder what the eventual German answer will...
...George Bush can enjoy the Democratic discomfort. Eventually, though, the public may also wonder what the President is doing. Asked to explain why the White House will not do more to mount an attack on the deficit, an Administration official replied, "We have done a lot. We have given this plan a lot of credibility." In Washington that's what passes for leadership...
...have they been egged on by such an overwhelming barrage of electronic violence. Never before has make-believe mayhem been such Big Business. The typical child takes in four hours of action-packed TV a day and watches countless commercials from the toy manufacturers that sponsor the shows. No wonder sales of war toys in the U.S. rose more than 200% during the past decade and exceed $1 billion annually. When the kids grow bored with the cartoons and plastic soldiers, they graduate to the electronic battlefields of Nintendo, Sega and the like, where the violence continues...