Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...
...high as 130,000 ft. It stiffened and swelled, its arms spread outward like a gorilla's, but it did not burst. Next stage was to take the suit up to altitude with a living man inside it, and that man was taking a considerable chance. If a sudden leak had developed at 130,000 ft., the pressure inside would have fallen quickly to the point where human blood boils and death is almost instantaneous. But all went well, and the man could walk on a treadmill and use his arms with reasonable ease...
...really sudden, nor was it an invention. It was a slow discovery. And it had begun where Bucky Fuller likes to begin: with a probe into the pattern of the universe. To make that probe, Fuller was struggling to develop a new tool-a geometry of energy. In this search of such a geometry, Fuller was using spheres as idealized models
Naturally the figures are misleading since Cornell just squeaked by an inexperienced Princeton team, 5-4, Wednesday and was beaten by Yale in a holiday tournament, 5-2. Barring a sudden collapse in the last three minutes of play, Harvard should gain its first Ivy victory...
...stand in the way of this earth-shattering, world-shaking romance for anything in the world," he said. "I tried for months to get Elizabeth on the phone to say let's get it over with. She wouldn't talk to me. Now all of a sudden I'm supposed to be standing in the way of the marriage of this lovely young couple who have been going together for so long...