Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower-class bar, he wrote, "the odors of colognes, after-shave creams, and hair tonics compete ably with vapors of alcohol and tobacco ... Lower-class dance forms, often animalistic, ... are undeniably suggestive: variations of the sexual act, sexual play, the chase, the sudden unexpected consummation of a wild fury, and then stillness, all communicate the dancer's intense drives...
...University is transferring the services of the Harvard Wives Office to various other administrative offices. The sudden curtailment of the service organization coincided with the retirement of Mabel B. Baker from her position as adviser of the Harvard Wives...
...tests conducted by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration indicate that there may be a significant temperature difference between the air masses on either side of a wind shear. To scientists at North American Aviation's autonetics division, these findings seemed to provide an answer. Wherever there are sudden temperature variations in clear air, they surmised, there must also...
...have conflicting theories about the cause of the phenomenon. Some believe that alewives head for shallow coastal waters in such great numbers every spring that they exhaust the oxygen supply in their immediate vicinity and suffocate. Others suggest that plankton-tiny water plants and animals on which alewives feed-suddenly begin dying just as the fish are crowding into coastal waters in the spring. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Melvin Greenwood theorizes that the alewives are killed by sudden temperature drops caused by violent spring storms that drive colder waters from the center of Lake Michigan into the shore areas...
Dead-Reckoning Navigator. The most serious source of danger is essentially the same in 1967 as it was in 1927: bad weather. On the favorite summertime route-from the U.S. to Sept lies, Canada to Goose Bay to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland-sudden storms blow up without warning; ice can form on wing surfaces at the drop of a single degree in temperature, and the approach to such key mid-flight havens as Greenland's fiord-fringed Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked...