Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sudden Death. In his diary and letters Stilwell usually refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...
Were things suddenly as black as they seemed to be? New York Timesman James Reston gave an answer that summed up the feelings of many a U.S. citizen. "We have been walking in darkness, if not in danger for a long time," he wrote. "The Communist triumph in Prague and the sudden death of Jan Masaryk were merely flashes of light that showed us how dark were the skies over central and eastern Europe...
...last minute program addition, singer Kitty Kallen will appear at the blow-out, although she will not sing, the eight-man Smoker Committee announced last night. At the same time Mile. Charpentier, termed "France's top songbird," notified the committeemen that sudden Philadelphia engagements will keep her from the show...
...happy undergraduate starts off each of his courses in the now semester with a peculiar eagerness in his heart, a positive joy in some cases. He runs along for a month wondering why he's enjoying his work so much more this term than last, when all of a sudden the great fact creeps...
...after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...