Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catching Hollywood's rumorists by surprise, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 33, got spruced up (the unwashed jeans lately have stood empty while their owner sported a blue suit, necktie and Hom-burg), drove to Eagle Rock, near Pasadena, and got married. Then with his bride, demure, olive-skinned, sari-swathed...
Scientist Masevich loosened up a little, telling how the authorities pulled a surprise test on her tracking system. The Soviet air force sent a jet plane flying high with only one dim navigation light, making like a Sputnik. The Soviet Moon-watch picked it up successfully, and four days later...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 16--The Soviet Union called on the U.N. today to halt a surprise attack on Syria allegedly planned by the United States and Turkey. Russia offered to join other U.N. members in supplying military forces to meet such an attack.
Biggest surprise was the sputnik's weight: 184.3 lbs. The U.S. Project Vanguard has hoped to send 21½ lbs. into space, less than one-eighth of the sputnik. Some critics cited the weight of the Russian satellite as proof that it is crude; but in satellite launching, the...
When the sputnik crossed the sky, it took U.S. satellite watchers by surprise. The Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., designed to correlate visual observations, was still unfinished. In spite of frantic efforts to make sense of reports flowing in from all over the country, its experts...