Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of his squad swarmed down ropes from a helicopter and began a security patrol through a nearby street. "It was bright daylight; there were windows and doors all around us, and you can't watch all of them all the time," said Rodriguez. "All of a sudden the Somalis just opened up on us, small arms and grenades. There was shooting from all directions, and we couldn't see who was shooting at us. I saw a muzzle once, sticking around a corner, and I shot at it." Almost instantly, though, Rodriguez himself "got shot in the right...
...heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided that they wanted me alive." He came to doubt that a bit later when he was placed on the tiled floor of a house and "all of a sudden, through the door someone points a gun in my direction" and fires -- blindly; the bullet ricocheted off the floor and hit Durant in the left arm. But voices argued violently outside the door, and there was no more shooting. Then he was carried in a car through many checkpoints and finally...
...Asif Ali Zardari -- were accused of patronage and receiving kickbacks on government contracts handed out to business associates. Whether Bhutto stays in power will largely depend on how she handles her relations with the military. One develoment in her favor: the top army command shifted last January, with the sudden death of General Asif Nawaz Janjua, to General Abdul Whaheed, 56, who is considered to be less political than his predecessors. But he too will face pressure from the armed services to defend the large defense budget, which Bhutto's poor and low-income supporters will want...
...will perpetrate a few grisly crimes; Mark will bang his head against the wall of parental disbelief; the stakes will keep rising until the final cliffhanging confrontation (again, literally). Far from defying Hollywood cliches, McEwan endorses them wholeheartedly. Flushed children skating merrily on the millpond when all of a sudden...; better yet: a clifftop tussle with the sea roaring on the ragged rocks below, and to top it all: Sophie's choice--a child dangling from either arm, and not enough strength to hold them both...
...SUDDEN DEPARTURE...