Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...
...National Education Week, but from President Eisenhower on down, most Americans were in no mood for applauding the nation's schools and colleges. Stunned into sudden-and at times, hysterical-awe of Soviet science, they could scarcely find words harsh enough to say about themselves or their campuses. "Throughout the entire country," noted Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk, "the subject of education has moved out of the quiet of the classroom into the arena of bitter controversy...
...sniffles faded away last week, Asian flu was no longer a big menace to crowd-filled movie houses. Boosting totals by some 1,500,000 adult admissions (a 5.4% increase over the previous week), a sudden moviegoing upswing ended a ten-week fall in attendance that had dropped 23.7% below the same 1956 period. Except for the Midwest, the reverse trend was nationwide, and the flu-thawed East boasted the highest jump...
...season. Then a couple of Rangers were waved into the penalty box. Determined to score a tie-breaking goal, Detroit sent five forwards lunging down ice toward the undermanned Ranger defenses. But before a shot could be fired, the startled Red Wings scraped to a halt. All of a sudden there was nothing to shoot at. The squat goal was still there, but it was turned completely around, its open end facing the backboards. Alongside stood the Rangers' Rookie Goalie Marcel Faille. He was the picture of puzzled innocence, waiting for someone to do something-anything...
...country is another solid cluster of relatives, and up in the timeless hills survive even more ancient progenitors. Safe, warm, sweet almost to the point of cloying, this is a world nourished on love, protected by kindness, impervious to small failures or vaulting ambition. It is shattered by the sudden, meaningless death of Jay Follet in an auto accident...