Word: unsought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bagged for a TV interview in Rio, New York's vacationing Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller gamely plowed through a new, unsought role: stooge on an eggbeater spiel. Following some 20 minutes of political chitchat, sultry Interviewer Lidia Matos casually stuck an appliance in Rocky's grip, asked the key question: What is it? An egg beater, answered Rockefeller, brightly but warily. "You're right," warbled Saleswoman Matos, beaming into the camera. "It's the lightest, most efficient egg beater made in Brazil...
...Table by the Window they are a once-married couple who meet again after having messed up each other's lives. She is now a desperately chic, a self-seeking but unsought woman who might have married millions but is reduced to modeling and drugs. He, a once tough, talented proletarian who might have been a Labor cabinet minister, is reduced to penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress...
...forwarded by A.P. through the Panmunjom camp. Censored by both Chinese and U.S. military, his pictures of beaming C.I.s seemed at once good propaganda to the Communists and good news for the U.S. home front. Last week, when Frank Noel reached Panmunjom in a group of released prisoners, his unsought "scoop" came...
...story appeared to be biased, the editors agreed, it was due rather "to a rigid adherence to a too narrow and frustrating definition of objectivity, which shackles initiative and leaves many questions unanswered and truth unsought...