Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American media has not presented clearly the immediate triggers of the recent violence. In the Soviet Union, Azerbaijanis and Armenians have lived in peace and harmony for a long time, just as they still do in neighboring Iran. Why the sudden violence? How exactly did the "ethnic conflict" turn into "separatist turmoil...
...sudden silence in the United States regarding the brutal force used by Soviet troops as they entered Baku? What would have been the American reaction had the Soviet Union sent troops in to a non-Muslim republic? If the brutality in Tiananmen Square was a "massacre," what should we call the far greater number of reported casualties in Azerbaijan? Anis Y. Sivani...
...they had spoken too soon. Minutes later, a report came in that the Engineers had taken the Big Red to overtime. A tie still would have meant a Harvard return to Potsdam. But RPI scored in sudden death, and that's when it really got confusing...
Fearful of a sudden devaluation of their hoards, East Germans last week staged a minirun on banks, withdrawing cash for shopping sprees. "People are buying whatever has value," said a salesclerk at East Berlin's Zentrum department store...
...apparently just plain bad luck that as the tanker American Trader was unloading off Southern California's Huntington Beach last week, a sudden swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...