Word: suddenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fernandes' chances of election were greatly increased by his absence. The peculiar details of his endorsement and of the frantic Republican efforts to reach him were widely publicized. Overnight Fernandes became known at least as well as Democrat Robert Q. Crane, the incumbent Treasurer. But the realization that the sudden boost to Fernandes' candidacy was due primarily to a strange set of circumstances rather than to any pronouncements of his own still embarrased some Republicans. They would like to think a Republican can win an election because he is a Republican, but if Fernandes wins they realize that his victory...
...sudden transformation was wrought by the prospect of petroleum deposits on the Tyonek Indians' 27,000-acre Moquawkie reservation. Even so, the ill-clothed, disease-ridden villagers needed pluck as well as luck to reap the benefits. They also needed the dedicated help of Attorney Stanley McCutcheon, 48, onetime speaker of Alaska's territorial legislature, who, as a young man, had befriended the Indians on business trips to Tyonek, and was determined to keep them from being exploited...
...Sudden Passivity. The red carpet soon ran out when the march switched off Highway 51 into the Delta, where Negroes often outnumber white residents. Governor Johnson lost some of his own cool and decided to withdraw more than half of the protecting state convoy. In Greenwood police at first refused to let the marchers pitch their tents on school property, arresting three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down...
...their sudden show of Southern passivity-sullen as it was-white Mississippians managed to play Br'er Fox to the marchers, who did not quite attract all of the headlines they sought in the hope of galvanizing Congress into quick passage of President Johnson's new civil rights bill. They were succeeding in James Meredith's original task of showing Negroes that they could walk through Mississippi with dignity. More important yet, their registration forays added 2,250 Negroes to Mississippi's voting lists...
Jumpy Gunners. As Dayan points out, the victory was all the more impressive in view of the delays and confusion that resulted from the sudden mobilization. The confusion, moreover, at times resulted in tragedy-the details of which Dayan's critics would as soon leave undocumented. Israeli tanks, for example, were unmarked, and were fired upon by Israeli gunners. In one murderous engagement, the Israelis knocked out eight of their own tanks in five minutes...