Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week there were indications that both labor & management were trying hard to avoid the mistakes that sent wages chasing prices in an exhausting spiral last year. Economists thought that, barring the shock of sudden industrial upheaval, the inflationary crisis had passed. Labor knew that falling prices were already pumping new buying power into existing wage scales...
...Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis...
...Sudden. In 1933 she was hired by the Paris Opera-Comique, sang more than 250 Carmens and Mignons in seven years. When the Nazis took Paris, she fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald...
...expected, a sudden wind of Marshall-for-President gossip whistled through Washington. But a shrewd Democratic politician put his finger on one major fact of U.S. politics. Said...
Although he had a private understanding with President Truman that he would take up the portfolio of the Department of State when Byrnes put it down, General Marshall, too, was surprised at the sudden call from Washington informing him that the time had come. On Monday evening he drove to the Gimo's to break the news of his departure...