Word: stunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVEREST, compiled by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (Dutton; $7.50), and THE PICTURE OF EVEREST, edited by Alfred Gregory (Dutton; $10), are two of the best picture books on the subject, the first dealing with the luckless Swiss attempts in 1952, the second an all-color stunner on the successful British expedition...
...same, fine, autumn afternoon, Pennsylvania stunned the Eastern experts: the unsensational Quakers upset unbeaten Navy 9-6. But the biggest stunner of all was supplied by Purdue, which had suffered four straight defeats. The Boilermakers came to life against Michigan State, unbeaten in 28 games, and upset State 6-0. With Michigan State and Georgia Tech toppled in one day, only unbeaten Maryland, which easily whipped Miami 30-0, was in any remote position to challenge Notre Dame as the U.S.'s No. 1 team...
Last week, acting as subcommittee chairman in the absence of McCarthy, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt sprang a stunner on the British. Information "confirmed by the Defense Department," he announced, showed that between Dec. 29, 1952 and April 20, 1953 exactly 100 British vessels made 177 trips to Red China. To prove his point, Mundt produced the names of 96 of the British ships as well as those of 62 additional ships which had put into Chinese ports flying the flags of twelve other non-Communist nations.* Said Mundt: "We have a right to expect from our friends...
...Truce Committee member, brought the new cease-fire plan before U.N. Its first four provisions were little different from the last truce plan. They included an immediate ceasefire, withdrawal of all "non-Korean" troops, and a new Korean government "in accordance with U.N. principles." But Paragraph Five was a stunner. It provided for a Four-Power conference of Red China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, immediately after the ceasefire, to settle Far Eastern problems "including, among others, those of Formosa and of representation of China in the United Nations...