Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the most unexpected subscriber of all I learned about in a letter from a former MARCH OF TIME man now with the armed forces in Iran: "Recently I witnessed one of the great nomadic migrations that take place every year when thousands of human beings and hundreds of thousands...
Last week P.A.C. backed a sure thing, Boston's handsome Mayor Maurice Tobin for the Democratic nomination for Governor in Massachusetts. Tobin won a thumping victory, which proved nothing about P.A.C., but in central Massachusetts P.A.C. lost in its attempt to unseat Congressman Philip J. Philbin. In the labor...
There in the darkness a Moslem was worshipping. He was Dr. Aziz, educated in England, touchy as a porcupine and delightful and unexpected as a child, proud (the descendant of bodyguards of the Mogul Emperors), a good polo player, a widower with three children, filled with the turbulent, conflicting emotions...
The idea of a half-free, half-open convention got added confirmation from an unexpected source. Shrewd old Jesse Jones published a signed front-page editorial in his Houston Chronicle denouncing the recent anti-New Deal revolt in Texas. The wiseacres reasoned: Jesse had waited until .the Southerners had won...
Through three daylight summer nights Ribbentrop played on President Risto Ryti's fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating...