Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopeful of opening direct channels of communication with art movements in the satellite countries, the Whitney Museum had sent some 300 copies of the book overseas addressed to museums and individual artists. From Warsaw and Cracow, Budapest and Szeged, Prague, Zatec and Bucharest came a stream of letters, catalogues, books...
Tea & Surrender. As easily as that, the Indonesian government last week regained control of Pakanbaru, the heart of the U.S.-owned Caltex oilfields. The rebel commander, Major Sjamsi Nurdin, and his 800 troops were taken completely by surprise. Even worse, the rebels had cleared the airstrip of oil drums only...
As thigh-slinging Crooner Elvis Presley made his way from Hollywood to the family home near Memphis to wait out his Army summons, Pollster Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced-to no one's surprise-that Pelvis fans, rated against the...
In the beginning, vague, fey Dody, a dancing veteran of show business, could not utter an unfunny word in the show's informal panel chatter-and all the laughs seemed to strike her as a complete surprise. Paar sang her praises (a "small gold mine," a treasure "straight from...
¶ As Madison Square Garden's 1958 track season ended, Manhattan College's Joe Soprano, a 21-year-old senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd...