Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Bridge Champion Rapee: "Check is a welcome relief . . . from racking your brain over a mathematical bridge hand. . . ... Your interest is always kept up by the fast play . . . and you're never a dummy." Mrs. Helen Sobel, chic, cool No. 1 woman bridge expert, tried her hand at the...
All week long Americans had been thinking about the fall of Berlin. The headlines and the radio shouted: "IT'S CLOSER AND CLOSER." Then, suddenly, with unexpected speed and unexpected ease, came the recapture of Manila (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS).
Judge Sullivan's ruling was a heavy and unexpected blow to the War Labor Board and the voluntary formula on which it operates. It was only a first-round decision. But, unless reversed, it meant that under the War Labor Disputes Act the President may seize mines, plants or...
Known to surprisingly few, the Lou Swain wedding came off with unexpected smoothness. Good luck to Lou who is known for his classic quotation, "Intelligence is the organization of emotion." Nuff said.
It was not in Krueger's nature to worry; 46 years in the army had increased, if that were possible, his innate stolidity. Worry, he once said, is a feminine trait; then he added, with one of those unexpected smiles which deepen the parenthetic lines about his mouth and...