Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate counterparts back home. But, during this century, Washington has grown so complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan Drury's melodramas soon gave way to the Burdick-Fletcher-Knebel potboilers that always had Washington a button away from nuclear destruction--unbeknownst to us all. Dr. Strangelove was the logical extension. Well, The Andromeda Strain is its biological brother. By mixing fact with Crichton's only too probable fantasy, his novel locates itself in a never-never world of secret government installations. It is the revelation of purported government secrets that make...
...since J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. He reports that he has finally persuaded his mother to give up her lifelong job as a charwoman. When he invited her to attend the première of his first big movie, she shyly refused, then, unbeknownst to him, just joined the crowd outside. She still takes the bus to his openings. "She used to tell me proudly how she had sat next to a real fine lady," says Caine. "It would make me bloody furious, and I'd ask her how she knew...
...heads day-today operations, can take much of the credit-and blame-for implementing policies. More and more, G.M. is using earthy Jim Roche instead of steely Fred Donner as its public voice. It was Roche who went to Washington to apologize for the embarrassing fact that G.M. underlings-unbeknownst to Roche-had hired detectives to probe the private affairs of Safety Crusader Ralph Nader. When G.M. makes delicate pronouncements about auto safety, quality control or production cutbacks, Jim Roche does...
...Unbeknownst to anybody, Skipper Long had steered Ondine 250 miles out to sea-maintaining radio silence. "We steered more for speed than for course," he said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...
some more squeamish Cliffies field the hall, their dates in tow. But most stayed and sought, with Ginsberg, "the thrill delicious," which might sometimes be merely "playing with myself unbeknownst to the entire population of Far Rockaway...