Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Forced Landing?" The U.S. Army was slightly embarrassed by its unexpected guests. Should they be returned as deserters, or kept as political refugees? At first the State Department ordered the men returned to the Russians, then changed its mind. After an all-night teletype discussion between Vienna, Washington, Paris and...
The villain in the piece was bureaucracy; minor officials of the two countries were involved in a prolonged haggle over wages and terms of employment. Meanwhile the braceros milled about in Juárez, restless, hungry and shelterless. Juárez' Mayor Carlos Villarreal pleaded for help. He got...
Mann's habit of interspersing long, solemn, gratuitous essays on culture, humanism, the German temperament and other intellectual matters throughout his story puts too many distractions between Adrian and the reader. But it is also true that some of the most brilliant writing in Faustus comes in these unexpected...
Ironic Tale. Juan Suarez de Valero has three sons, one a great bishop, one a great soldier, and the third a baker. The concern of the churchman, his fear that his vanity is being appealed to, the confidence of the soldier, and his subsequent humiliation, the embarrassment of the baker...
Unexpected Reaction. But Secretary of State Marshall had to be told. He was in Paris trying to negotiate with the Russians at the U.N. Mr. Truman sent him a letter by diplomatic pouch and told him of the great idea.