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Word: surprisee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief George de Carvalho, with New York Photographer Anthony Linck, traveled 10,000 miles for almost a month by motor launch, native dugout canoe, truck, jalopy and a variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

After a month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

No Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

The surprise, of course, was on Rommel, who was caught notably out of position; and he was to keep muttering through that fateful invasion day, as he rushed back to Normandy: "How stupid of me, how stupid of me." It is the number of fortuitous errors and outright bungles on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Columbus. Cocky, voluble Democrat Maynard E. ("Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle for City Hall | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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