Word: sudden
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...high but projects its energy several hundred feet deep is going to pack more of a punch than a wave whose power is confined to the surface. Another critical variable is the shape of the ocean bottom. Surfing hot spots, or "breaks," are usually places where there is a sudden transition between deep water and shallow. Thus, as waves roll in, they are forced to leap up and over an underwater barrier. For example, "Killers"--the name of the break that Knox surfed at Todos Santos--channels big ocean swells across a deep canyon onto a submerged reef. Result: waves...
Despite two dramatic escapes worthy of an Indiana Jones movie, the Harvard women's lacrosse team couldn't pull out a win against the University of Massachusetts on Saturday. UMass scored a sudden-death goal in double-overtime to foil Harvard...
...This is the mood of the moment, a sense of anguish at the sudden loss of prosperity and status, but if you don't want foreign investment, if you don't want foreign expertise, then you are going to take longer to recover...
...will turn a profit in 1999 -- a year ahead of estimates," reports the New York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...
...reading and reading and reading and reading, and you get to the point where everything you know comes from what you read about them you get to the point when, kind of like when you're writing a paper, all of a sudden you realize you're in home territory and you absorb the history in a whole new way that makes it your...