Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly the biggest surprise of the meet was the showing of Dyke Benjamin, who placed fifth in the two-mile. Villanova's ace Alex Breckenridge had to come from behind to nip Benjamin at the wire for fourth. Benjamin was unofficially timed in 9:21.2, more than ten seconds better...
Fortnight ago, CBS got a surprise telephone call from the Soviet embassy in Washington. In response to a recent invitation, the biggest of all, Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev, had agreed to face the cameras of Face the Nation. Still wary from its experience with Molotov, Face the Nation nevertheless...
The soil bank was a compromise from the start. After campaigning for years to get rid of costly, futile, surplus-accumulating price supports, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson was forced in pre-election 1956 to settle for much less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the...
To remedy this situation, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to require the beneficial (i.e., actual) stockholders to be identified before voting in any U.S. proxy fight. But if Senator Capehart thought he was doing the SEC a favor, he got a rude surprise. Last week...
In a fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in...