Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted exclusively to verse are frail, poverty-stricken, ephemeral publishing ventures, subject to sudden collapse; Poetry, largest (5,500 subscribers) of about ten U.S. poetry magazines, must beg constantly to stay alive. In book circles, the sale of 5,000 copies of a volume of poetry is considered unusually brisk. Yet by last week An Introduction to Haiku, a book on one form of Japanese poetry released two months ago by Doubleday, had sold 9,500 copies and was still going strong...
Willey hopes to begin excavating in 1960. The diggings may resolve at least the questions of the pattern of Maya cities and the reason for the Mayas' sudden disappearance from the area...
Harvard probably has the best last-five-minute hockey team in the East. Another superhuman effort Friday night netted the two tying goals against Boston College just 46 seconds apart, but Eagle Jack Cusack's 20-foot slap shot at 6:33 of the sudden death period sent the Crimson home with a 3-2 defeat. The junior varsity and freshman teams were defeated by 5-3 and 3-0 scores, respectively...
After a good Harvard rush at the two and a half minute mark another miscue at the point led to an Eagle rush which nearly ended matters. Then, at 6:33 of the sudden death period, the B.C. second line rushed again. The Crimson appeared to be in control of the puck and attempting to clear it from behind and to the left of the nets. Cusack intercepted the disk 15 feet in front and fired a low back-hander into the left corner of the cage to end matters...
...Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...