Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proponents of the bill said this unexpected windfall would make possible an event they have been wanting to do for a long time.
Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue...
Even as Dugan was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, word reached President Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire. The incident was not unexpected; when the President embarked on his robust Bosnia policy, he knew that casualties were inevitable. Fatalities, however, sometimes provoke spasms of American self-doubt...
The move was not unexpected; a report in last Friday's Wall Street Journal predicted that Houghton would step down this year.
This shift in power was not unexpected. Glimp, who will turn 70 next week, said that he had been contemplating this move since the beginning of the capital campaign, and that he and Rudenstine made the final decision last summer.