Word: suddenly
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...relevance of that vision was summed up by Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the opening session. "John XXIII presented to the world a public philosophy for a nuclear era," said Humphrey. "It represents not a Utopian blueprint for world peace, presupposing a sudden change in the nature of man. Rather, it represents a call to leaders of nations, presupposing only a gradual change in human institutions. It is not confined to elaborating the abstract virtues of peace, but looks to the building of a world community governed by institutions capable of preserving peace. We honor Pope John XXIII on this...
...protest, a mob captured two policemen and burned them alive. In Malayalam-speaking Kerala state, mobs attacked post offices and trains, and students signed pledges of resistance to the "imposition of Hindi," using their own blood as ink. State elections are scheduled for next month in Kerala, and the sudden emergence of the Hindi issue seems likely to hand victory back to the Communists, who ruled Kerala from...
...With the sudden multiplication of the number of [Federal] fellowships, we're in a rough competitive situation," President Pusey said last week. Although "our first reaction was shock and dismay," he said that most departments now believed that they could maintain or raise the quality of their graduate students...
...justification of its high cost. Says National Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy of the more than 6-ft.-wide Bathers: "Size is of no great value in a mediocre work. In a great artist, it spells adventure: thinking big, feeling big, painting big." Hendy attributes his museum's sudden jump of 26,000 in attendance chiefly to the new Cézanne. However proud, he is taking no chances. The controversial Bathers hangs alone in a guarded room, protected by a bulletproof Perspex plastic screen...
Tooling along the freeway at rush hour, with cars whooshing around him like jet-propelled lemmings, the home-bound commuter is 20.34 minutes from the carport when glunk!-his engine expires. Or else sudden snow turns a mountain road to meringue, or the fuel gauge comes up E in the midst of the desert, 25 miles after that road sign...