Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The next move came from the Socialists. The hundred Socialist Deputies had taken a pledge: they would serve only under a Socialist Premier. Last week, in a complete about-face, they said they would take part in a government formed by Radical Socialist Bourgés-Maunoury. The surprise decision...
Kishi's tour of Southeast Asia was designed as a prelude to his U.S. visit: he wanted to claim to speak for Asian opinion. In New Delhi Kishi outlined to Jawaharlal Nehru his own plan for a U.S.-financed billion-dollar Asian development program, listened in mild surprise when...
As he might have guessed, very little was to become of it. The Trojans called for 20 principal singers, two choruses, ten different sets, hunters on horseback, ships moving out of a harbor, naiads swimming in "a natural basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course...
If any man other than the President himself symbolized the first Eisenhower Administration, it was marble-cool, granite-solid Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey. He was Dwight Eisenhower's closest Cabinet friend, the President's most trusted adviser in domestic affairs, the architect of a fiscal policy that...
Specifically, Nimitz swung his three carriers-Enterprise, Hornet, Yorktown- around to the northeast of Midway to take the Japanese by surprise from the flank. "You will be governed by the principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who...