Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took some last minute heroics by the varsity sextet to come back twice in the final period to tie all-American Bob Marquis and his B.U. teammates, then skate through a scoreless sudden death period for a 5-5 standstill at the Arena last night...
...Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought on the sudden burst of speed...
...Pablo Picasso, who spent weeks sketching compositions based on the theme of an artist painting a model in a skylighted studio, had a sudden change of inspiration when he saw the huge mural panels alotted him. He switched to an enigmatic, allegorical beach scene that has proved to be one of UNESCO's major disappointments (see color pages). No help is the concrete catwalk that cuts across the delegates' lounge some 20 ft. in front of the mural, effectively slicing it in half when seen at a distance...
...stationed guards at each chamber door to keep them out. For good measure, they disconnected the electric bell that the Speaker rings to call a plenary session of the house to order. That, they thought, should do the trick: no Speaker, no bell, no session. But all of a sudden, the bell rang out-it was hooked up to an emergency wire that the Socialists did not know about. Just as suddenly, up popped Vice Speaker Saburo Shiikuma. He announced quickly that the session would be extended 30 days, and then bobbed down again, to an outburst of Liberal-Democrat...
Apparently even Red China's disciplined masses had found the sudden shifts in Peking's Quemoy policy too much to swallow. Only two months ago millions of Chinese students and workers were whipped into a synthetic fenzy of rage at "U.S. invasion" of Quemoy and the other offshore islands (TIME. Sept. 22). Scarcely had these demonstrations reached the proper pitch of hysteria when Peking did an about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take...