Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odds. He had also revised the odds on the whole Republican sweepstakes. MacArthur's poor showing let the air out of the MacArthur balloon with a sudden, dismal swoosh. Tom Dewey was worse off than if he had never shown up at all. Taftmen had something to crow about. Not only had Dewey's prestige been dented, but MacArthur strength, they hoped, would now flow their...
Personal Traits. Bespectacled, with a toothy mouth and a boxlike jaw, he looks more like a college professor than a politician. Unlike his father, who was a hearty laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
There were some signs that the Communists had lost ground. One day last week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator...
Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...week long, stock exchange traders watched the ticker for some sign that the previous weekend's sudden spurt in both prices and volume of trading (TIME, March 29) indicated the long-awaited break in the 22-month-old bear market...