Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caldwell was especially good at mimicking Southern folk rhetoric, its mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...
Well aware that narrow profit margins can easily be erased by a sudden rise in costs, Lee Skirt snips all possible corners. It has dodged style changes by concentrating on "what most women want most of the time." By ordering in volume, it gets a steady supply of good fabrics which boost sales and eliminate costly returns because of imperfections. To avoid waste motion, production has been so simplified that, says Carl, "our employees can work blindfolded." Lee Skirt treats its 50-odd employees well, and except for oral agreements on wage boosts has never had to alter its nine...
Canada's Conservatives-who staged their first national political convention in 1927-last week got news that they will hold their fourth national convention soon. The sudden resignation of their leader John Bracken had caught them by surprise, and they were in a tearing hurry to select a new leader before the government called a general election...
...morning last week, the New York Stock Exchange was swamped by a sudden deluge of orders to buy Curtiss-Wright...
...unobtrusive as a well-trained butler, the U.S. Public Health Service moves quietly about its job of doctoring for the nation. Unless there is some sudden medical miching malicho (an outbreak of smallpox in New York, or plague in California), the public sees little of its day-to-day workings. Yet the P.H.S. has helped improve the health of every man, woman & child in the U.S. Last week, few people noticed that the P.H.S. was celebrating its 150th birthday...