Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belts will withstand 6,000 Ibs.' pressure, when in fact tests have shown that they snap in a 15-m.p.h. collision. To counteract such fraud, 32 leading firms have joined the American Seat Belt Council, which certifies that their belts will take a minimum 4,000 Ibs.' sudden pressure. Detroit has so far played it safe by ordering from such well-established firms as Irving Air Chute Co., Auto-Crat Manufacturing Co., General Tube Co. and American Safety Equipment Corp. Auto-Crat is so touchy about its public image that all its employees get free belts and must...
...Then, all of a sudden, there were three more jets, silver ones. One of them was up high circling, and the other three came at us all in a row and shot again. We didn't go in the wheelhouse or anything. We didn't want them to think we had guns or ammunition. They'd have sunk us right there. The second time the bullets went across the bow close to the anchor line. I wasn't watching too close. I don't know if they were Russian jets or not, but I knew...
Evening. A darkened room. Figures huddle close together. There is a sudden flash, a great white ball of light. Then a wavy line. Then a dot. Then nothing...
Lois Reiser '64, the new president of RGA, said last night that some members of the executive committee favor investigating the consequences of a sudden constitutional change before any further action is taken...
...eyes, Caldwell-Chiron seems, not surprisingly, a dichotomized being, for whom life takes on a quality of doubleness: the obvious and the metaphorical, the literal and the mythical. "Take your time," he said with a sudden sweeping motion of his hand, as if remembering that unseen audience before which he was an actor. You got lots of time to kill. At your age I had so much time to kill my hands are still bloody...