Word: unbeknown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summarily dismissed. A few days later, O'Brien, with no preparation and no cue cards, hosted his make-believe show on the Tonight show set. "The kid is no pro," says an NBC programmer who watched the test, but immediately the network took him more seriously, and, unbeknown to Bob Costas, even offered him the 1:35 a.m. slot now occupied by Costas' talk show Later...
...President came face to face with that contradiction last Wednesday evening when he returned to the White House from a campaign fund-raising dinner. He was scheduled to sign the compromise Civil Rights Act of 1991 in a major Rose Garden ceremony the following day. But unbeknown to him, a senior aide had prepared a directive designed to undermine the spirit if not the letter...
...size of the Soviet economy and its rate of growth. This in turn has persistently distorted our estimates of the Soviet threat, notably in the 1980s when we turned ourselves into a debtor nation to pay for the arms to counter the threat of a nation whose home front, unbeknown to us, was collapsing." Overall, adds Moynihan, the CIA's misanalysis represents "the most massive intelligence failure of the cold...
...fate of Dimitrov's corpse had been hotly debated since the downfall of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November. The cremation was carried out against the wishes of some party members and unbeknown to demonstrators camped outside the mausoleum to protest the homage paid to a leader some reviled as a Stalinist. Their posters depicted a sphinx above slogans reading, WE DON'T NEED ANY PHARAOHS and IT STINKS...