Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar view of the great man in his hour of trial. During it, there were three unprescribed noises not all of which were fully audible to the nation. Once little, Julie Hamilton, 5, came to the head of the stairs in her nightie and called "Daddy." Again with a sudden hum the Hamiltons' electric refrigerator switched on and radio technicians gritted their teeth. Finally as Hugo Black finished talking and reached for a cigaret, one of the guests in the dining room applauded...
...Count Juichi Terauchi's army had gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another day that Japanese headquarters were tense with strain-afraid of sudden intervention by Soviet Russia should it seem to Moscow that Tokyo's forces are overextended. In a stiff note this week Moscow explicitly rejected Japanese charges that Chinese planes disguised as Japanese were going to bomb the Soviet Embassy at Nanking, warned that if it is bombed under...
...observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers and lower temperatures can avert a major epidemic." Latest news was that 50 people per day were dying of cholera in Shanghai...
...same social league, each learned with horror that she was likely to see the dress that she had just paid at least $350 for not once but seven times. To shrill objections over the telephone Mme Schiaparelli last week had nothing whatever to say. Taking advantage of this sudden publicity, however, style pirates in Manhattan's garment centre set to work duplicating the model not seven but 700 times...
...beat of the 75th, Author Johnson gives little practical advice in his lean volume. He suggests that none but home-players thoroughly enjoy concert performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Erne Kleine Nachtmusik (whence his book's title), which began, for him, with "the sudden, awed, incredulous realization that they had hit it, yes, by George, they hit it all together and all on the key-what a moment! . . . Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken...