Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunan and Kwangsi, China's sadly famed domains of hunger, 16 million people last week were suffering from what UNRRA experts termed "sudden and acute starvation...
...extent of the changes in the top level of the Soviet High Command was not yet fully known. However, it was understood that Stalin has carried out a through-going reorganization and that Zhukov is not the only commander to suffer a sudden change in status...
...surface, the U.S. people's first reaction to the sudden end of price controls was violent. Headlines told of prices of meat, milk, butter and bread shooting up. Like fat in a fire, accounts of sky-high rent boosts sputtered noisily in the news. In the first day or two it seemed to many that the nation had caught panic at the notion of being on its economic own, and free of Government price controls...
...High Is Price? The sudden prospect of an end to all price ceilings was almost as staggering to businessmen as to consumers. How high could prices...
Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...