Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the fortress toppled. In its own historic stronghold, Labor suffered a smashing and totally unexpected defeat-the first serious setback since it came to power in July 1945.
No Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films...
After a mauling at the hands of the Royal Navy all-stars Saturday afternoon, the team along with Yale and Princeton traveled to a private fete held in the home of one of Bermuda's more prominent local citizens. It was designed as a garden party, but the coming of...
M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of...
Brown stated that the decision was unexpected. "We feel that the committee did not have all the facts before it when it acted," he said.