Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polly had been working for that performance ever since, back in 1955, a grey-haired lady approached her, after she finished a singing stint in the glittery Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, and said that Polly reminded her of Helen Morgan. Polly's admirer turned out...
In a city where wide-eyed crowds can be conned into celebrating the dedication of a drugstore, it was no surprise that big-league baseball had packed the house. It hardly mattered that the Dodgers had already dropped two of their first three games with the San Francisco Giants, the...
More important, in trying to improve the accuracy of the sampling, the Census Bureau in the past 15 years has increased the number of families interviewed from 25,000 to 35,000 and the number of areas surveyed from 68 to 330. When it expanded from 68 to 230 areas...
All told, the varsity won nine events, placed second in six, and third in only four. Captain Pete Reider, surprise starter in the mile, beat Jerry Lewis of Army in 4:19.1, while Bill Thompson took third with a stunning 4:22 plus, by far his best.
"The Great Crash was a total surprise. No one knew what to do. It was almost a standing joke for businessmen to be jumping out of windows because of financial difficulties. In many places there wasn't such a thing as relief. There was no hope; just a feeling of...