Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push the call button. The sudden ping in the cockpit might startle the felon and provoke him to fire his pistol. This could cause the skin of your aircraft to be punctured. In the unlikely event of this occurring, follow emergency procedures...
From "I'm Evil," all of a sudden Elvis is in the middle of this tiny stage, surrounded by an audience of girls. Real live human being girls, with whitened hair and Montgomery Ward dresses and the belligerently Okie appearance that is associated with California dragstrips and jerkwater high schools. He's holding his own ax--"I didn't know Elvis could play the guitar...
Naturally Discouraged. Abel's sudden blossoming into print and native recognition is somewhat surprising. Last week he even appeared in a movie based partly on his own experiences. Russia long denied that he was a spy, or indeed a Soviet citizen at all. At Abel's 1957 trial, he refused to disclose his identity, confessing only that he had entered the U.S. illegally. At that time, the Soviet press described him as a wretched German photographer victimized by "a hoax concocted by J. Edgar Hoover and American authors of lowbrow science fiction." In fact, as Abel now tells...
Although the military has placed some circuitry underground and installed surge arresters (which safely dissipate sudden pulses of current) on other equipment, Jackson says that much of the nation's electronic defense-and its offensive missiles, too-may well be susceptible to EMP. Military men and scientists who do not share his concern are as frustrated as those who would like to continue testing. Secrecy prevents them from airing their arguments...
Harvard's advantage did not stand up for long, however. It disappeared in a sudden explosion of the Eli offense in the second period, when Yale was aided by the wind...