Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some Wall Streeters, noting that the market had jumped 35 points in the past month, figured that it was due for a correction - a minor and temporary decline of 3% or 4% . Others reckoned that last week's pulling and pushing set the base for a blowoff, or sudden and possibly spectacular advance. Many Wall Streeters were predicting that the Dow-Jones by year's end would top 1,000, a goal that seemed almost impossible to achieve just a few weeks...
...generate confidence and energy in his followers. According to Shaddeg's report, after one speech Goldwater "left the rossrum, paused only briefly to speak to one person at the edge of the crowd, then entered the elevator and went up to his suite on the fiftenth floor. His sudden departure had not been prearranged. In his 1958 campaign...Goldwater had always stayed around and visited with the audience afterwards." The candidate's coldness naturally left the "disappointed Goldwater supporters...angry and bewildered...
...fours to get it. Slowly, by fits and starts, Levi reawakened to reality. From a peremptory Greek companion, he learned basic survival tactics: "He who has shoes can search for food." Then one day Levi asked directions from a Polish priest, got an answer in Latin, felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of restoration to humanity and health. His memoir is dignified and affecting, a gentle epic of recuperation...
What did Manry's fellow copyreaders think of his sudden leap out of anonymity? "He was here when I arrived five years ago," said one, "and quite honestly, I never did know much about him until this happened...
...this could cause the spacemen to faint under the high G forces of reentry. But Cooper and Conrad stayed alert during both the re-entry and the many postflight tests. Every day the astronauts were strapped prone to a tilt table, then swung rapidly into a vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took for the astronauts' systems to recover from the jolt, and to compare this with the length of time it took in preflight tests. Time after time, the astronauts withstood the test without blacking...