Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furniture Factory Concerto. Whence comes this sudden surge of national enthusiasm? More education is one answer. Before World War 1, 20% of the 14-to 17-year-olds in the U.S. attended high school; in 1964 this has increased to 93.5%, of which 53% go on to college. Enrollment in U.S. colleges increased 102% between...
Harvard's hockey varsity came with-in 12 inches of pulling off the greatest upset of the year in Eastern hockey last night at Watson Rink, but finally lost a 1-0 sudden-death heartbreaker to power-laden Boston University...
Wasolo, where "Doctor Paul" maintained his medical mission, is a sudden clearing on the turn of a jungle road 800 miles northeast of Leopoldville and a million miles from nowhere. In Lingala, the lingua franca of the region, the place is aptly called "The End of the World." The Africans have beaten down the sobi grass around their huts in fear of snakes; beyond rises a wall of impenetrable rain forest. The hospital compound dominates a low hill. The house itself is red brick, and in the rainy season its roof pours drinking water into barrels standing beneath the eaves...
...despite all the efforts of equipment designers, doctors, trainers, and coaches, deaths do occur. A Penn junior varsity lineman, Al Buder, broke his leg in a game against Harvard. The fracture seemed to be normal and not at all dangerous, but a sudden embolism, or air bubble, developed and a week later Buder died...
...bishops' sudden awakening to realities came two days before the session's end, when they were scheduled to vote on a revised declaration on religious liberty that strongly defended the right of all men to worship God as conscience dictates. Just before the balloting, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, chairman of the twelve council presidents, announced that "many fathers have objected that there has not been sufficient time to consider the declaration. It seems proper therefore to the presidency that this question should not be decided now. We will not proceed to a vote...