Word: surprisingness
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The Harvard men’s basketball team took another step in exorcising its road demons from a year ago as it held on to win 67-64 at Colgate on Saturday. Leading the Crimson (4-2) once again was junior guard Jeremy Lin, who filled up the box score...
"How could you know something like that would happen?" one worker told the New York Times. "No one expected something like that." But for people who study crowd crushes, there was nothing surprising about what happened at Wal-Mart. It was reminiscent of many tragedies that have come before, at...
Thankfully, China is unlikely to go there. For years, its economic policymaking élites have been sober-minded and effective. U.S. officials privately believe that their Chinese counterparts know there is no going back on the currency. Perhaps the more pressing topic of discussion at the meeting this week was...
In other words, Walt must both be a Man with No Name, a Dirty Harry, and find a cause beyond duty or blood sport to atone for his Korean gunmanship. This fits with Eastwood's rounding out of his familiar character in later films--challenging the audience to accept "Cleent...
It was only surprising that it hadn’t happened to me sooner. What I was feeling, the strangeness—most of my classmates had been through this a long time ago.