Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Stranahan of Toledo, who won the British Amateur golf championship five weeks ago (TIME, June 7), got some friendly advice from an unexpected source. After being presented to King George VI, he reported, "The King told me he thought I turned my left hand too far over when I...
Down on the convention floor National Affairs Writer Bob Baker inadvertently picked up some unexpected information at the close of the second ballot. When the Dewey total was announced, the delegates swarmed into the aisles, carrying Baker along with them until he swirled into a private caucus being held on...
The lowbrow, lusty New York Daily News, which sells more copies (2,350,000) than any other U.S. daily, was 29 years old last week-and feeling a little sensitive about praise from an unexpected quarter. In an article in Harper's called "Great Newspapers, If Any" of the...
JOSE FIGUERES guide got us safely Second Republic." through the Government lines and, after 30 perspiring, anxious miles, we ran into a rebel patrol. It was like old home week. The patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent...
At first the camera kept its eye close up, on pitcher & batter, and followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back...