Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a bumper crop almost in, Nikita Khrushchev's successors, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, could afford the gesture. "Well," said one Russian woman, "I guess this shows that -what's his name?-oh yes, Kosygin -is all right." The Explainers. Khrushchev's sudden ouster has seemingly stirred little emotion among the Russian people. But shock and indignation have mounted in Communist parties abroad, and the task of soothing the foreign comrades left Russia's new B. & K. team red-eyed with fatigue. Into Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish...
...British papers, the sternest message of its kind since the Boston Tea Party, and for the time being at least, it was certainly more effective. Amid a flurry of warnings from politicians and business leaders, Smith backed down. He promised the Parliament in Salisbury that he would not declare sudden independence, and personally sponsored a motion declaring this week's referendum would be purely academic. "The British government's moves have upset everything," he said plaintively on TV. Well, not quite everything. The white man is still master of Rhodesia...
Pearson's new source of hope springs from a sudden weakening in Diefenbaker's Conservative leadership. Diefenbaker has long argued that Conservatives would never accept a flag that left out the Union Jack as a symbol of Canada's historic ties to Great Britain...
...renewal, there was precious little reason why they should. But Bacon and other U.S. planners are, and properly should be, thinking in terms of the long future, to make the city attractive and stimulating again?creating new neighborhoods, bringing old ones back to life, seeding the streets with sudden green, opening up unexpected views, and giving men room to work and stroll and play and talk. To rediscover, in short, the pleasures of urbanity...
...Every recognized expert on Soviet matters was greatly surprised at the sudden removal of Khrushchev, but they need not have been had they read your cover story of last Feb. 21. You as much as predicted the eventual rise of Brezhnev to the premiership...