Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden action meant the end of 51 laws, although actually it was only a beginning in the process of dismantling the machinery of war. Selective Service still remained. Nearly 500 emergency control measures-covering everything from butter substitutes for patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., to death sentences for deserters-still stand. Before the U.S. has been restored to a full peacetime basis, the President (or Congress) must terminate the states of "limited emergency" and "unlimited emergency"; and Congress must terminate the "state...
...have two more years ahead in which it will be hard for you to feel completely settled down-«iew friends, new work and many new interests loom up. Most of these will be sudden and out of your usual run, but need not be difficult or unpleasant, since you are usually an adaptable person. Your health may cause a little alarm, but this will be largely nervous in origin, not constitutional defect, so do not worry...
...decision to stand up to John L.Lewis seemed to have worked wonders for Harry Truman. Columnists and cartoonists noted a sudden rise in his political prestige. At their annual Gridiron Dinner, Washington newsmen softened their traditional digs at the President and chorused "Of thee we sing. Harry!" with real enthusiasm...
Andrews sees a silver lining in the sudden interest which the U.S. military are showing toward Alaska, whose eternally frozen soil is an ancient, well-stocked deepfreeze. "Mammoths preserved in cold storage for 100,000 years are not infrequently uncovered. Scientists should be behind [the bulldozers] to examine the frozen earth for fossils which will tell the story of our own lost history. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the body of one of the earliest human migrants to Alaska may be discovered...
...sudden ending of the strike brought a feeling of relief to many mining towns which were experiencing a pre Christmas lull, but feelings of individual miners were mingled...