Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans littered the ice with rubber balls and garbage-and the Red Wings got the message. Checking brutally, they fought back: Norm Ullman scored late in the second period, and Floyd Smith tapped in a third-period goal to tie the game at 2-2 and send it into sudden-death overtime...
...hardly Samuel Edward McDowell's fault that he is not the most noticeable player in baseball. He goes out of his way to be noticed. A 23-year-old lefthander who pitches for the Cleveland Indians, "Sudden Sam" McDowell can throw a baseball faster than anybody else in the American League, and he stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall-"two inches of which," someone once noted, "is hair." Sam's taste in clothes is provocative. He showed up for work this spring looking like Black Bart-black ranch pants, black coat, black neckerchief, black cowboy boots and black...
...Guess. Now there are hitters around the American League who insist that Sam is even more sudden than Sandy-but nobody knows for sure, because McDowell refuses to have his fastball timed. "Koufax is one of my idols," he explains, "and I'd hate to find out that I'm faster than he is. Of course, I'd hate to find out I'm slower too." Because Sam's "hummer" breaks sharply-down instead of up-he has also been accused of throwing an illegal spitball. Not so, says McDowell: "I wouldn't know...
...Bible, which was not open to critical study by Roman Catholics until Pius XII encouraged it in his 1943 encyclical on Scriptural studies. In so doing, McKenzie, at 55, has become the nation's most controversial and quotable Catholic theologian-perhaps because there is all of a sudden so much of his work to quote from...
Sparks Fly. Amid the cathedral-spired Gothic-solid buildings at Yale University, Art Historian Vincent Scully Jr., 45, excitedly defines the aim of his teaching as putting "the right word together with the visual fact so that all of a sudden sparks fly and a new skill is born: the ability...