Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from both national and New York political leaders. President Johnson, once Lehman's colleague in the Senate, called him "a distinguished leader who ably and efficiently served his state and nation." Several of his closest New York associates, including Mayor Wagner, expressed great sorrow and deep shock at his sudden death. Lehman, despite his advanced years, had been in vigorous good health...
...political differences with both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Now he was weeping. "It didn't sound like a firecracker; I knew it wasn't right off," he said. "It was too loud, and there was a sort of concussion. Then all of a sudden they speeded up in front of us, and we tore right away from there as fast as we could. I saw an agent in front of me pull out his machine gun and look up at the building. The shots were like explosives, horrible explosives. I knew right away that something terrible, terrible...
...your holy company . . . Grant, O Lord, that while we here lament the departure of Your servant, we may ever remember that we are most certainly to follow him. Give us grace to prepare for that last hour by a good life, that we may not be surprised by a sudden death but be ever watching, for when Thou shall call that soul, we may enter eternal glory through Christ, Our Lord. Eternal rest grant him, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. Amen...
...Duke might just as well write another piece called the Damascus Reel, for Syria, too, underwent a shakeup, quieter but no less significant. Behind the sudden shuffle of Middle Eastern leaders was a power struggle inside a strange new political force, the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which in little less than a year has turned from a shadowy, clandestine movement without popular support into a dynamic power challenging Gamal Abdel Nasser for leadership of the Arab world...
...shock was felt most keenly by Livermore's other paper, the Herald and News, a triweekly that has been around for 86 years. Some of the Independ ent's sudden growth has come right out of the Herald and News's ad accounts. Says Robert Penland, Herald and News publisher: "We're probably going to have to work a little harder." Even if he does, his new competitor will retain one distinct advantage. Robert Penland sells his paper; Joan Kinney gives her Independent away free...