Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George P. Baker '25, dean of the Business School, said last night that after about 15 minutes of discussion, the Faculty decided not to consider the proposals, both dated March 3, because of their sudden presentation and a very heavy agenda...
...Prime Minister had called the sudden general elections in the hope of uniting his party and consolidating his power. His failure to accomplish either aim reflected the fact that Northern Ireland's politics are still ruled by prejudice and personalities. The patrician Prime Minister is a cautious and moderate man who talks about issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from...
...William Fulbright sat on the bench watching his team battle it out. "It looked to me like the opposition had all the big guys," he said, when it was all over and his team had come in on the uninspired end of a 53-38 score. But why this sudden interest in basketball for an old football fan? It turns out that one of G.W.'s intramural squads has christened itself "the Fulbrights"-complete with red shirts emblazoned with a white dove on the front-and J. William was there to cheer the boys on. After all, he reasoned...
...were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been assigned by the Texas Council to work for rural self-determination in the Rio Grande Valley. The protesters were quickly assured that the conference would work "aggressive ly, creatively and risk its very life" on be half of the workers...
...their authority, they have often run their publicly held organizations very much like private fiefs. Now in many executive suites and board rooms, apprehension and even fear have replaced the old self-assurance. Some of the richest and most respected of the nation's companies have become vulnerable to sudden capture by a new and daring kind of business operator...