Word: sudden
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...corresponds with comes home to marry another woman. Yet personal embarrassment is only a starting point in Carried Away. The story extends over many years and contains enough twists, including an accidental beheading, to lead the woman to see her life eventually as "a devouring muddle" full of "sudden holes and impromptu tricks and radiant vanishing consolations...
...like when you are at a dance and you decide to go. You start heading for the door, and all of the sudden they are trying to shove you out. And you say, "oh no you don't." Massachusetts Senate President William M. Bulger, on his future career plans
...this is not the NFL, and there is no sudden death. Harvard still had about 20 minutes to catch up yet again, so coach Stephen Locker let the offense loose...
First Officer James P. Hayes, who was flying the DC-9, had been warned of wind shear in the area of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. But Hayes said he had no idea he was so near the sudden, dangerous shift in wind speed and direction caused by a downward rush of cooled...
That was four years ago. On a street corner in northwestern Washington one evening last week, Barry stood on top of a ladder, his arms wrapped around a telephone pole, as a passing car came to a sudden stop. A young woman shouted from the car, "Hey, Marion Barry, you're gonna be mayor again!" Barry turned, a green campaign poster in one hand and a staple gun in the other, and acknowledged the endorsement with a smile. Across the street Kevin Britton, an elementary-school gym teacher, explained that he too wants the former three- term mayor back...