Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made secret demands which local Chinese officials pluckily rejected as "unreasonable and fantastic," Japanese war boats rushed into port to menace Tsingtao further with their big guns. The Japanese marines moved forward to seize the city's water works, then moved back as 3,000 Chinese troops approached. Sudden freezing weather came and 36,000 locked-out Chinese millworkers shivered, railing at the warm Japanese millowners...
...little in the past has the importance of American literature been heeded by the faculty of Harvard. With the sudden departure of Bernard De Voto the last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong...
There were screams from smaller stockholders, resulting in sudden attention from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, but when the din died Radio (underwriters of the debentures) had more than one-half the stock and over three-quarters of the debentures, an investment eventually carried on Radio's books at $15,000,000. In 1932 NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth became RKO president...
...assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous...
Almost every year an outbreak of acute gatro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body. The usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land. They are no more frequent in colleges than in institutions, hotels, and restaurants that serve food to large numbers of people. They are more striking, however, because in the college, all cases come to the attention of the authorities, whereas restaurant and hotel guests scatter and seldom report...