Word: unexpectedness
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That's what happened to the Martin government. Gratuitous insults from the Liberal backbench, the unexpected policy change on missile defense, and Martin's "Blame America" tirades during the election left the Bush White House convinced that Canada's jovial, well-meaning leader was as untrustworthy as his predecessor, Jean...
U.S. hostage Jill Carroll's unexpected release in Baghdad on Thursday was a welcome departure from the usual round of bloody bad news coming out of Iraq these days. But the circumstances of her release can hardly be divorced from the sectarian strife and political jockeying that is currently gripping...
It's all going to blow up." this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France - where the word consensus is not exactly common usage, and the word reformist is considered an insult - confrontation always seems inevitable. Whether the First...
The book they can't keep their hands off is Spotless, a guide to household cleaning - and an unexpected blockbuster. Launched in December with a modest first print run of 12,000, the paperback compendium of "solutions to domestic disasters" has been reprinted 10 times and sold 138,000 copies...
Those who know baseball as the art of the arbitrage will point out that its simple concepts—pitching match-ups, defensive alignments, and the like—favor zigs and unexpected zags.