Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflation will, it had sneaked up unbeknownst. All of a sudden, with a rule change here, a new technique there, games that used to be well-balanced and even-paced had become frantic high-scoring battles. Judging by attendance, and audience enthusiasm, the crowds liked it that way. But here & there a small voice could be heard-asking what had happened to football, hockey and basketball...
...alcoholic taking the "conditioned reflex therapy" is first given an injection of emetine, which is, unbeknownst to him, a powerful regurgitant. The conditioning takes place in a small, drab clinic furnished with a kind of throne for the patient and a number of large white enamel pans. On a throne-side table are "all conceivable types of liquor...
...people, a fourth of-July catchword which means exactly nothing can be sorely disarranged by the sort of subversive literature which the F. B. I. still allows to circulate. We can blindfold our eyes and follow the example of France, which was eaten away from the inside by termites unbeknownst to everyone until the German juggernaut pushed her over like alehouse of cards. Or else we can wake up to the fact that allowing these publications to continue is a mockery of the freedom of the press, a travesty of the principle of civil liberty. "Social Justice." "The Galilean," "America...
Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...