Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed, was immune from ominous personal criticism or sudden dismissal. The government fired Jozef Kutin, a deputy foreign trade minister, and Wilhelm Billig, head of Poland's nuclear-energy office and a former chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College...
Against Amherst, only number four, Paul Oldfield's come-from-behind tie kept the Crimson from a 7-0 slam. Joe Tibbetts, playing number seven, also tied on the 18th hole, but played a sudden-death 19th hole which he birdied...
Before the projectile hits the ground, a small parachute tucked into its hollow tail is released, pulling out a long wire antenna. As the projectile pierces the earth, a small, insulated accelerometer responds to the sudden impact and subsequent slowing by producing a voltage that varies with the rate of deceleration. The voltage is amplified and transmitted through the antenna, which, unfurled, is long enough to remain extended above the surface...
Bill scored the winning goal in a sudden death overtime as Harvard toppled perennial powerhouse Boston College, 5-4, before 14,000 fans...
...tour, Beman is a short hitter, but he makes up for it with the uncanny accuracy of his approaches and putts, and last month he tied Arnold Palmer for first place at the $100,000 Bob Hope Desert Classic in California-only to finish second after a sudden-death playoff. "Deane will be around a lot longer than I will," sighed Winner Palmer, "and he's going to win a lot of tournaments before he's through...