Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neglected Lives starts badly, but the persistent reader will be oddly charmed as the individual plot strands begin to weave together, strangely at first, glancing off and crossing each other in deep and surprising ways.
Carter takes a stand against spending and wins a surprising victory
The vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto...
The Spanish-speaking presence in sections of downtown Los Angeles is so pervasive that other Angelenos sometimes refer to the area, with an edge in their voices, as "Baja Hollywood." Yet a strong Hispanic flavor is hardly surprising in a city that was founded in 1781 as El Pueblo de...
ATTENTION, ANGOLANS! read Portuguese newspaper ads last week. ALL PERSONS WHOSE NAMES ARE LISTED HERE SHOULD GO TO THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY ON A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. The scores of people listed were refugees who had been airlifted to Lisbon from the former Portuguese province in 1975, when...