Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying back to London with good notices from both the German and British press, Wilson went ahead with plans for trips next month to Paris, New York, Washington and Rome. This was image-building indeed. In London it was suggested that Labor's leader had in mind a sudden election in June in the hope of broadening his present slender majority...
...Sudden Fall. The daughter of a Viennese leather-goods manufacturer, Margherita Wallmann danced as soon as she could stand. At 15 she was a soloist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But her career as a dancer came to an abrupt end in 1934. During a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera House, a trap door opened suddenly, and Margherita plunged, she says, "like Eurydice into the underworld." She fell 14 feet onto an iron framework, breaking...
...been able to set up all its funds and industry, whose level is 60 times higher than that of Czarist Russia. However, those in the West often make believe that profit was formerly denied in the U.S.S.R. And now they allege that the Soviet Union has all of a sudden started zealously deriving profit...
...weapons are economic blockade and psychological pressure. At issue is Spain's rankling sense of being the only European nation with a foreign colony on its soil. This anachronism must end, says Madrid, and Gibraltar must be returned to Spain, to which it belonged in 1704, when a sudden British-Dutch attack captured the fortress in three days...
...race is the most infuriating test of men and boats yet devised. The prevailing northeasterly head winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like the wind...