Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, as a fourth patient of the chief surgeon's returned to robust health, Rudloff was particularly careful to make a note of his home telephone number, in case of unforeseen accident. "That won't be necessary," the patient's wife told the nurse. "My husband will be coming home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients...
Nevertheless, barring the unforeseen-- the appearance of aceteylene blow torches for instance--future generation of Harvard men will return from a victory over Princeton and Yale soberly or otherwise, as the case may be, tack their program covers to the wall in deference to the tradition of while goal posts their predecessors fostered. Perhaps a dishonest few will sneak behind the Stadium and knock down the wooden goal posts on the practice field. Perhaps others will chip away the concrete in the Stadium itself. Or there might be a sudden rash of postgame helmet thefts...
...served Mendes so well at Geneva failed him at Brussels. From its birth, EDC had stood in danger of being killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength...
...home deliveries are as critical as Paula's. But, making ten to 20 sorties a day, the delivery teams come up against many an unforeseen crisis. One night a team raced to a grimy cottage to find a young Italian woman about to have her first child. She was screaming with pain; worse, her husband's nerves had cracked. Brandishing a pistol, he locked the door, announced that he would kill the doctors unless the baby was delivered safely by midnight. Wasting no time in argument, the team got on with the job and delivered twin boys well...
...Communists came in wary triumph, as if fearing only some unforeseen development; the British arrived with the studied detachment of a consulting surgeon at an operating table; the French with the resolute air of a patient who has at last decided to undergo major surgery...