Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuclear weapons have made war suicidal a Western representative pointed out. "What we are trying to do here is to establish some common ground with the Russians ... In this nuclear age if you can devise a sure guard against surprise attack, there will be no attack. And if there is...
¶ Received, from a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency (Estes Kefauver, chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection...
Such freedom of choice can take many forms. It by no means requires a rupture between the peoples that have newly acquired their freedom and those that have led them along the path to this freedom. Therefore it should come as no surprise when I say that the U.S. hopes...
Hussein was content to let others run the government. Glubb Pasha, trusted and devoted servant of old King Abdullah, kept the Israeli border quiet and the Legion hotheads in check. Elderly politicians left over from Abdullah's day swapped ministerial posts like musical chairs, and one ministerial clique won...
Jack Barry, who was fired as M.C. of NBC's $100,000 giveaway, The Big Surprise. He was indignant about the way he was fired, "by a formal note sent in the mail, a cold, old piece of paper."