Word: sudden
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Recently Morales called into his office a beautiful little six-year-old girl who had been missing a lot of school. "I asked her if she needed an alarm clock to help her wake up on time," he recalls, "and all of a sudden she breaks down crying." It seems that under the nose of her allegedly crank-addicted mother, the girl had been raped repeatedly by a teenage relative, a sadistic sort given to dousing his hands in fingernail-polish remover, setting them aflame and then blowing out the fire before he was burned. He warned the girl that...
Though the cash windfall was nice, both authors downplay the sudden change in their fortunes. Lamb and his wife, a high school teacher, are giving a lot of their newfound wealth away, while Mitchard was relieved merely to be able to pay some bills. Oprah has copies of their new books, but Lamb and Mitchard say they have no expectations that the star will pick them again. And it hardly matters. According to Pamela Dorman, Mitchard's editor, the author already has such an enthusiastic following that Viking has printed 400,000 copies of the new title. "Of course there...
WASHINGTON: Majority Leader Trent Lott likes to run the Senate his way -- and he usually succeeds. But despite being hailed as an aisle-crossing compromise, the sudden revival of the tobacco bill's prospects in the Senate is proof that Tom Daschle and the Democrats are occasionally able to beat Lott at his own game...
Twelve minutes into the third sudden death overtime, sophomore midfielder Ashley Berman raced the ball down the right flank and dumped it to freshman Erin Aeschliman, who spun around and fired a shot at the George Mason goaltender. The keeper was able to dive and deflect the blast, but the ball came to junior forward and Ivy League Player of the Year Naomi Miller, who knew just what to do with it. Miller calmly deposited the ball into the back of the George Mason net and sent her Harvard teammates, coaches and fans into a hysterical frenzy...
...smattering of wins against non-league opponents Virginia, B.C. and B.U. were signs of what was to come in the ensuing month. An easy 6-3 win over Pennsylvania was soon followed by victories over Columbia, Princeton and Cornell. All of a sudden, the losses during spring week seemed like distant memories, as the Crimson rolled through its league schedule and was only two wins from clinching at least a share of the title...