Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana's roly-poly John Overton objected: a sudden time jag would cause him to miss his favorite radio commentator (Lowell Thomas), and foul up the delivery schedule of his milkman...
...daughter's round eyes and read a $20,000 message which he decoded thus: "O.K., papa, it's yours for the family [of nine], to do what you think you should." Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 citizens shook, stomped, cried or set 'em up with sudden violence...
Sidney didn't like the big sleek bands where the money was: the musicians were trying to outblow each other. In 1933 he gave up and opened a tailor shop. Then came the hot jazz "revival," and all of a sudden schoolkids who had never seen Sidney knew all about him, from hearing the old records. He shut up his tailor shop and started to play again-usually in small groups, including one of his own called the "New Orleans Feetwarmers." Unlike his friend "Satchelmouth" Armstrong, he refused to front for bigtime, second-rate bands...
Stew Meat. Once more, housewives were staring their butchers down, taking home stew meat instead of standing rib roasts. There was a sudden demand for buttons-for home sewing. The Sears...
...Sudden Action. The state legislature acted quickly. A bill appropriating two million dollars for a Negro university at Houston and for an "interim" Negro law school at Austin was hastily introduced. One Senator shrilled a warning: "If we don't do something quickly, the United States Supreme Court will rule that your child and my child will have to attend school with Negroes." The bill passed...