Word: suddenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changes--shocks that caused her to reform her life's perspectives at every turn. (As Eleanora explains to Steven, "Change was something awful that happened when I didn't even know it. Like a punishment for living and everything. I'd wake up mornings and know all of a sudden that there were things I couldn't do anymore, or say or feel...
...project. "Clearly the lists were full of mistakes," Brown admits. "Since there had never been a real challenge to the stockholders' slate, a certain laxness in this area of record-keeping had developed. Most of these mistakes were of no consequence to anyone for 86 years. All of a sudden last fall we had to have accurate records and it was just too late. It was not until the first of the year when the various schools published up-to-date and complete alumni directories that we were able to correct our lists...
...solutions to the Coop's voting procedure are far from obvious. In response to the sudden interest last fall, the board of directors is trying to take a long, careful look at its own structure. Brown points out that changing the by-laws is not as simple as it seems; "The by-laws are put together very tightly. If you start to tamper with any part, they all begin to come apart. By analyzing the whole corporate structure, hopefully by summer we will be able to come up with a more satisfactory method of getting a representative and responsible board...
Astronaut's-Eye View. Early in the mission, the astronauts trained a movie camera on the discarded third-stage S-4B rocket while it orbited near by and recorded the sudden and startling spurt of flame as its engine was fired to shove it out of the way and into a permanent orbit around the sun. In a sequence showing Spider undocking from Gumdrop, Spider moved slowly away and then began a smooth and graceful demonstration of its maneuverability...
Someone offstage is pronounced guilty of a series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole play is like that-sudden and senseless as a dream...