Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This ivory-tower ignorance persisted in the most unexpected places. In Sendenhorst, correspondents came upon towering, grey-haired Count Clemens von Galen, renowned Catholic Bishop of MUnster and fearless critic of the Nazi regime since its inception. Instantly the prelate made it clear that he was "loyal to the Fatherland...
Skycoon Trippe believes just as firmly that his plan is better for the national interest, and last week he got some help from unexpected sources. Spokesmen for labor and farm groups (the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the International Association of Machinists and the National Grange), appearing before a Senate Foreign...
Said the Prime Minister: "It will fall to us, as the largest Party in the existing House of Commons, to arrange for a general election. . . . Should we be successful in the election a very happy burden will fall upon our shoulders. . . . The job has to be finished and I am...
Married. Catherine Vance Nimitz, 31, music-librarian, eldest of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' three daughters; and Commander James Thomas Lay, 36, of the Third Amphibious Force; in Washington, D.C. The wedding was put forward by the unexpected arrival from the Pacific of the bride's father. Result...
At week's end, nobody would predict how long this unexpected good-fellowship would last, or how far it could be extended over the rest of the country. But the production bottleneck was broken.