Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The surprise action split Cao Daism wide open. Rival factions began feuding with each other in nightly sprees of shooting, kidnaping and plundering. The imprisoned pope often interrupted his daily mandolin strumming and xylophone banging to pray for the dead. Meanwhile, rivalry between the pope and his disaffected general to...
Next fall, announced Washington's Sidwell Friends School, "a limited number of qualified Negro students" will be admitted to the school's kindergarten. Among the students now attending all-white Sidwell: three children of Mississippi's arch-segregationist Senator James O. Eastland, loudest voice of the bias...
¶Why does Johnny hate his math? The Carnegie Corporation of New York suggested one reason. In a special survey, the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. found that "although all states require education courses for secondary mathematics teachers, a third of the states require no mathematics for certification of...
"Rumors of your arrival are floating about and everybody asks me is she really coming and I always answer that it wouldn't surprise me. Certainly, if everything goes off as fancy as it looks now, you would be very happy to be here and to see your opera on...
Actually, many Southern newsmen took it for granted that their papers would soft-pedal such an emotionally explosive issue. But the surprise is that so many editors are now willing to stick their necks out. It is only about ten years since newspapers in the South began in any numbers...