Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There were 574 cases involving civilian Government employees and 69 are still under investigation; in all the other cases the accused had either quit, been cleared or fired. The investigators found the greatest batch of civilian cases-143-in the State Department. State had cleared or gotten rid of all...
¶ Announced that an overlapping network of radar-warned "fighter-interceptor wings" equipped with the latest F-86 and F94 jet fighters had been set up across the U.S. to guard against surprise attacks.
For its exhibit of "Wonderful Moments in the New York Theater," a Manhattan museum had a surprise visitor with a donation: Maude Adams, 78, came in with the "diamond and emerald" crown she wore in A Kiss for Cinderella, her 1917 farewell Broadway performance.
In royal convoy, the frigate Surprise, carrying Princess Elizabeth, escorted by the frigate Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, put into Turko-Limano for a six-day unofficial visit to Greece and the duke's family.
¶Asked whether the U.S. would be justified in using the atom bomb, Geopolitician Father Edmund A. Walsh, S J., of Georgetown University, said: "If the Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would...