Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before the meeting, automobile dealers were a cocky lot. For more than a month they had been dazzled by an unexpected show of Government friendliness. At a series of "informal luncheons" held in a few key cities, OPA had convinced dealers it was on their side in their old...
In this quest for a brief three minutes of entertainment, there are fortunately a few names which rarely disappoint. Everyone raves about Duke Ellington, and his bandwagon is one on which I have long been riding. Duke has abandoned the overwrought orchestrations he was writing a few years ago, and...
In an unexpected burst of petulance, Murray charged that Washington was infested with "dishonest" representatives of big business "purportedly working for a dollar a year . . . obviously in the city of Washington sabotaging the national defense efforts."
Getting Used to It. Men can adjust themselves to Antarctic living, but their bodies acquire a new balance, reported Physiologist Ernest E. Lockhart. The repeated stimulus of low temperatures makes blood pressure increase by 25 to 35% and makes the rates of respiration and heart-beat decrease somewhat. Basal metabolism...
The also-ran "Unexpected Uncle" might just as well have stayed home.