Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Europe. 1959's changes mostly reflect what the optimists call "creative abdication" of empire and the pessimists call retreat. But to the surprise of many, including the participants, an independence movement that begins as a protest against the West, taking help where it can find it, often ends...
After the war, Terrell tried his hand at a twelve-minute'film called Smellodrama -an odorously unsuccessful precursor of Mike Todd Jr.'s untried Smell-O-Vision (TIME, Nov. 17). Then in 1949, Terrell opened the nation's first musical arena-theater tent at Lambertville, although " '...
No Pay. Recognizing that he may not be his father's child of terror, and responding to genuine pressure from the Yemeni population for an end to feudal tyranny, Prince Badr at once set about winning the Imamate in an unheard-of way: enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented...
Youlou, finally consenting to an election, then set out to win it. With a nice piece of gerrymandering, he increased the size of the Legislative Assembly from 45 to 61 seats, and saw to it that most of the new constituencies were located in the south, where Youlou supporters are...
Listening to the barrage last week, the defense industry kept mum publicly. Privately, it reacted with surprise-and considerable anger of its own. In Pittsburgh, Reserve Army Colonel Willard Rockwell, who once took time off from running his three manufacturing companies to serve briefly as an assistant to the Defense...