Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steel and Friendship. U.S. Economist Calvin Hoover's recent recommendation that Germany be allowed to keep much of her heavy industry had an unexpected effect. When the U.S. press denounced the Hoover report, the Russians realized the extent of U.S. sentiment for a "hard" peace. In the subsequent efforts...
"You have never been inside a film studio? ... It is really [the same as a] palace of the 16th Century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There are fantastically beautiful women . . . incompetent favorites . . . great...
Unexpected return to peacetime sports required that both colleges extend their schedules beyond the traditional Thanksgiving weekend wind-up, but the excitement of renewing the favorite rivalry is expected to make December weather bearable for the spectators.
While only about 350 new Freshmen are expected to enter today, an unexpected increase in veteran applications has made it necessary to provide temporary quarters in Holworthy and Stoughton Halls, in the Yard, not used since the Navy moved into them in 1942.
But OPAster Bowles got help from an unexpected source - dynamic, jut-jawed Ray Wright Turnbull, president of Edison General Electric Appliance Co. (Hotpoint ranges and heaters). In a cheerful statement. President Turnbull approved the new ceiling. Said he: "The company is willing to take its chances on this loss because...