Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, every guess seemed to be close. Despite the generous terms of the contract handed him by Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug last May, Lewis found sudden fault with it last week. The whole agreement, he growled, would have to be reopened on or before Nov. i. And if not re-opened by then, said John L., the U.M.W. would consider itself without a contract. Everybody knew that that meant a strike; to the miners, the slogan "No contract, no work" is as automatic as their breathing...
...wantonly litter the steps of Widener, Sever, and Emerson with countless cigarette butts where uneducated squirrels are liable to find and sample the "filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that she and other families were thinking seriously of finding more suitable homes...
...University suffered a heavy loss yesterday in the sudden death of Samuel Hazzard Cross '12, professor and chairman of the committee of Slavic Languages and Literature, who has long been recognized as one of the country's leading experts on Russia and general Slavonic linguistic studies...
...housewives joined the protest over the petroleum famine. Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
...From about a hundred yards we watch helplessly what is happening. There is a priest beside Eguino. . . . Right now Eguino was killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened crowd in the plaza a woman screamed: "The voice of God-it is God punishing...