Word: sudden
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...heart of Rohinton Mistry's monumental new novel lie questions as essential as breathing. How can hope and dignity be maintained in the face of daily atrocity? And atrocity that comes not with the sudden violence of a Holocaust but in a steady, relentless drip-drip-drip of degradation and disappointment. What is the price of forbearance in the challenging of injustice, and when does stoicism turn into fatalism? Cities like Bombay are routinely given tags like "City of Hope" or "City of Dreadful Night"; Mistry digs beneath the comfort of such abstractions to a level of complexity where murderers...
With runners on second and third, senior catcher Dennis Doble beat out a grounder to short for an infield single, driving in Carey. Junior first baseman Peter Albers followed with a sacrifice fly to right, and all of a sudden the game was tied without the benefit of even two Harvard hits outside of the infield...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team saw its four game winning streak snapped last Saturday at home when it lost to eleventh-ranked Notre Dame 7-6 in sudden-death overtime...
Then, all of a sudden, my representative in Washington was whisked away from me, and slick-haired Richie Neal--a Democrat, yes, but no Olver--was now my representative. In spite of the hopeful fact that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn...
...biggest problem were poor decisions, inconsistent throwing and catching and the lack of immediacy [on offense]," co-captain Megan Hall said. "We feel like we can take the ball down, throw it around and all of a sudden there's a turnover...