Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sudden reversal of Annex Senior Weekend plans last night has moved the Sunday afternoon picnic from Norumbega Park in Auburndale, to the Field House at the Radcliffe Quadrangle...
Shaken by this sudden hiking of Red terms, after both sides had previously agreed to talk over Mao's surrender formula (TIME, Jan. 24), the Nationalists' Li had conferred with his generals, then sent his imploring telegram to Peiping...
...sudden acceleration hit Chuck Yeager like a sledge hammer and the X-1 climbed high at tremendous speed. ("It's like having hold of something by the tail and not daring let go.") At carefully timed intervals he fired the other rockets. Each gave the little orange airplane another mighty push. Chuck didn't hear much noise; he was leaving sound behind...
...corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...
...Correspondent Morley Cassidy of the Philadelphia Bulletin reported last week from Stockholm: "It is beginning to seem awfully lonesome up here on the Baltic. Fingering its boy scout knife, Sweden is noticing that the woods all of a sudden seem to be getting terribly dark...