Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows who fired first, but all of a sudden the Pathet Lao was shooting, and the neutralists were running. On the dusty Plaine des Jarres airstrip, mothers breastfed dirty babies, and children sagged under the weight of parachute packs crammed with household belongings as they patiently waited for planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...
...HAVEN, Conn, April 19--Yale University was shocked this afternoon by the sudden death of A. Whitney Griswold, its 16th president. Griswold, who has been president since 1950, died of cancer in his home. He was 56 years...
Crisis in Confidence. In the spring of 1962, ten months before his five-year term was up, Diefenbaker called a sudden election. His Liberal critics accused him of timing it before the seriousness of Canada's coming economic crisis was recognized. But though Pearson was well-armed with ammunition, his dry campaign style was drowned in a gusher of Diefenbaker oratory. The divided Parliament that was elected mirrored a divided land. Diefenbaker lost 87 seats, but held power with 116 Tories, firmly anchored to the prairies, against Pearson's 100 Liberals, strong in the cities...
...fewer than five chambers, each with its own specialty. One will deal with economics, others with education, social, general administrative, and federal matters. For the first time, there will be a Premier and a Vice President, although neither one is designated to succeed Tito in the event of his sudden death. Their powers will be strictly limited. Under the new constitution, the Communist Party remains the "fundamental initiator of political activity...
...Fragments. The reader is soon plunged into a bewildering narrative jigsaw puzzle that reconstructs Jakob's life. Snippets of dialogue between Jakob's co-workers alternate with long Faulknerian monologues by a state security officer who has been shadowing Jakob. Small, never entirely explained incidents-like the sudden flight of Jakob's mother to the West-switch abruptly to recollections of Jakob by a girl who grew up with his family and has long since escaped to West Berlin. Piecing these fragments together reveals a shadowy plot. But in the process of finding out what happens...