Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidenced by the U.S. note, was Mikolajczyk's personal safety-so far. But foreign correspondents in Warsaw feared that, after a Communist election victory, things might take a grimmer turn between the neighbors of No. 16 Szucha Avenue. Few people would be surprised if there should be a sudden vacancy. As everywhere else, apartments are scarce in Warsaw and Mikolajczyk crowds the city, anyhow...
CAUSALGIA. This mysterious ailment, resulting from wounds near a nerve or blood vessel, causes excruciating, burning pains. In "major" causalgia, the patient is completely disabled, screams with pain at a touch or a sudden noise. In "minor" causalgia, the patient, months after a minor cut or infection has healed, may suffer severe pains without visible cause. Nerve block with novocaine or alcohol gives quick relief...
Although the psychological pressures that complicate a serviceman's return to academic life have received careful attention from various offices, the pattern of readjustment is not yet clear. For one thing, the veteran finds himself initially bewildered by the sudden array of responsibilities that confront him when he returns to college. The veteran may consider himself fortunate to be clear of that chain of command that formerly made decisions for him. But with the blessing of external freedom has come the impact of an over-severe self-judgment which has focused itself narrowly upon the accepted standards of academic success...
Harassment. The months between Chapultepec and San Francisco marked the period of supreme vacillation in U.S. policy toward the Argentine. The real reasons for the sudden shifts probably will not be known until the official documents are published years hence. But after San Francisco, the policy shifted again...
...together with his wife) in Brazil almost five years ago, he had been working on Balzac for a decade, referred to it as "the large Balzac" that was to become his magnum opus. Now published, his passionately sympathetic portrait of the prolific French novelist is clearly handicapped by the sudden death of its author...