Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost 2 a.m. when, accompanied by Alben Barkley, he made his entrance into the hall. The delegates stood and cheered. Harry Truman laughed with the crowd as a sudden swarm of pigeons flew around him (see below), then adjusted the microphones upward. The photographers howled; the raised microphones obscured their view of Harry. "I am sorry that [they] are in your way," said the President, "but they have to be where they are because I've got to be able to see what I'm doing-as I always am able to see what I am doing...
Nevertheless, many of the stories are notable simply because, in detailing murder and sudden death, they also give pictures-more vivid than history books, more penetrating-than novels-of their times...
...confided in, too coldly ambitious to be loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch. It would move surely, after poring over all the facts. It would be alert, but would avoid any sudden changes of policy. It might be short on imagination, but it would certainly be long on efficiency...
...manifestation of that peculiar exuberance typical of American democracy . . ." A more thoughtful analysis came from Britain's Rebecca West, who was covering the convention for U.S. and British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages when Kings and Popes were chosen . . . Well, now you are choosing a President, and the people are just as excited . . . Almost nothing in this convention seems as good as the people...
...into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened to point toward the earth...