Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a surprise nominee walked off with the honors. Virginia's budget-dogging Harry Flood Byrd quietly announced that his Senate Finance Committee would begin hearings on "the financial condition of the U.S." by mid-May, would carry out "one of the broadest investigations ever undertaken by Congress...
Testing trends before next year's congressional elections, Pollster George Gallup last week announced some answers to a Galluping theoretical question: if you had to register today, would it be as a Democrat or Republican? To nobody's surprise, 53% of those questioned went Democratic, including 59% of...
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style...
Plotting the Show. The packagers of both $64,000 shows also produced NBC's The Big Surprise, which folded fortnight o ago. One of its planners offers this insight into the big-money show : "We always used a plot, an ideal way we would like the half -hour to...
Only rarely do quiz producers get caught in indiscretions. The Big Surprise is being sued by Showgirl Dale Logue, who complains that she was deliberately fed a question that defeated her for $10,000. It was the same question, she says, that she muffed during a "warmup session" before the...