Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later the R-100 poked into a squall. Officers and men clutched for support. Fuel slopped out of tanks. Worse, the hydrogen balloonets were in danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
...Montreal a sudden, violent electric storm halted telegraph and telephone service election night and drenched bulletin board watchers. As they rushed for home they knew that Quebec, normally Liberal, had given Conservatives at least 16 seats, that Conservatives had ten and Liberals one of New Brunswick's eleven seats, that Prince Edward Island voted three Conservatives and one Liberal into office. It appeared certain that Mr. Bennett's Conservatives had given him a majority of Parliament's 245 seats. Mr. King had perhaps 100. The minor parties had negligible counts. The Liberal-Progressives seemingly had broken...
Explanations. Alarmed at the sudden outcry, Army & Navy officials hastened to explain that they were compelled to buy foreign food products for their outposts because U. S. law requires them to pur- chase from the lowest competitive bidders...
...fanfare, anti as the band crashed into "La Marseillaise" the French tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
Before him, crowded cheek to jowl, sat whites and blacks, men and women, boys and girls, for the "Live-at-Home" movement included Negroes. Newsmen remarked with astonishment upon the sudden evaporation of race prejudice. Negroes spoke from the same rostrum as Governor Gardner about the "recovery of their race's self-respect." Declared Governor Gardner...