Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sterne, a polished craftsman, had hitherto painted what he saw with a cool, formal realism. He had been accustomed to making dozens of studies for each canvas, spending months on the final version. Then, all of a sudden, "I decided that I didn't have much time left and I'd been trying too hard...
Lately, there has been a degree of politeness in the elevators here in the TIME & LIFE Building that would be considered extraordinary anywhere. Practically everyone has had a sore arm or a sore leg-the result of vaccination for smallpox-and an understandable desire to protect them from sudden onslaught...
Airborne scientists will observe the effect (if any) of the eclipse on cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are not supposed to come from the sun, but they may be influenced somehow by its sudden blackout. Airborne, too, will be Army meteorologists, watching temperature changes in the atmosphere at all levels as the moon's cold shadow sweeps across Brazil. If the weather is good, they ought to get a gorgeous silhouette picture of the earth's satellite...
...cannot foresee the day when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
Varsity golfers swept Amherst Saturday, 5 to 4, for their fourth straight win in an unbeaten season, as Bill Rickenbacker sank a 35-foot putt on the twenty-first hole of his four-ball "sudden death" match at Amherst, to gain the birdie four and a rained-drenched victory for the Crimson...