Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently, White House aides all at once told how much Johnson has always admired Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer (The True Believer). Actually Johnson had never met Hoffer, and nobody had heard him mention his name, but the reason for his sudden enthu siasm was clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point...
...Time Inc. as a campus stringer at Oxford. The story, for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, was about the price of wolf's urine at the London Zoo. "It seems," he recalls, "that the Oxford drag hunt used wolf's urine for the drag and they were upset about a sudden price hike...
...sudden and complete reversal of the current pattern of escalation would probably meet far more vociferous opposition than the present policy. And the President could even fall victim to voters who take his Munich propaganda too seriously...
...customers to 90% of their usual orders. Only two weeks ago, second-ranked Texas Gulf Sulphur (nearly 3,000,000 tons) began telling its buyers that they would have to settle for just 75% of their normal quotas during the next three months. It appears that the relatively sudden squeeze has caught almost everyone by surprise. "Like the toothpaste ads say," comments one Commerce Department official, "we wonder where the yellow went...
Seldom had a nation managed to attack, antagonize or alienate so many of its neighbors in a single week. All around its vast perimeter, in a great circle from Russia and Japan on the north to India and Indonesia on the south, China stirred up trouble and resentment. The sudden spurt of hostility seemed prompted by an overflow of missionary zeal for Maoism, a certain amount of frustration at the difficulties encountered at home by Mao's Cultural Revolution and a new wave of China's historic xenophobia...