Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
...sudden there was a crisis in shoes. The entire U.S. shoe industry seemed threatened with imminent shutdown. Several plants actually closed. Reason: now that OPA had returned from the grave, no hides and leather were going to market...
...Congress went home-perhaps to stay until January-a sudden quiet fell in Washington. The industrial and labor fronts were quiet, too, except for lingering disturbances like the supplier strikes which were still crippling automobile production...
...Mead Committee has not brought out that Statesman Andy May had anything to do with the Garssons' sudden blossoming as munitions magnates in early 1942. (The Walker loan incident indicates, however, that the May-Garsson tieup existed in early 1941.) It was an extraordinary beginning...
Back in pioneer Oregon of 1856-ah, those were the days!-life was chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls...