Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard wasted little time in the sudden-death period. Ware took two shots and Charlie Scammon got off a pair which Leu stopped. Then Garrity drilled a neat pass to Murphy at the right corner of the crease. Leu went for Murphy, but the puck went to Smith at the other corner. With the whole net to shoot at from three feet, Smith easily sent the weary skaters to the showers...
When neither team scored in the ten-minute overtime, coaches Ned Harkness and Jack Kelley met at mid-ice and, amid screams of "More More More," agreed to a second sudden-death period to determine a winner...
...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
Despite Poppins' success, Julie fretted "that everybody will think I'm a square." It was a fair fret: they did. Suddenly Americans saw her, says Carol Burnett, as "Gwendolyn Goody Two-shoes." Julie began to worry about being typecast, doomed to be always the governess, never the mistress. She saw the humor in the sudden rash of bumper stickers: MARY POPPINS is A JUNKIE (her friend Mike Nichols affixed one to her car), but it didn't console her much at all. It was largely in an effort to change the image that Julie took...
...would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar carry the reader along his wacky safari. Actually, Kerouac claims that it was less safari than satori (the Japanese zen term for sudden illumination), although it is not clear just what the satori conveyed...