Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little doubt that the overwhelming majority of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites wanted independence at any price-except allowing the 4,000,000 blacks a larger voice in their government. They probably would get it soon enough. At week's end, as Salisbury citizens noticed a sudden increase in army vehicles on the roads, Smith announced that the final decision would be made at the Cabinet's first meeting this week...
Sukarno is a sick man (kidney and gall-bladder trouble), and it seems likely that the sudden rash of plotting represented maneuvers for position by factions anticipating his departure from the scene. Seven Chinese doctors constantly attend him, and he stayed all week at Bogor. But he didn't look very ill as he paced his palace corridors. In fact, his familiar charm seemed still to have some of its old effect. The army reluctantly called a halt to its roundup of Communists and even anti-Red newspapers were responding to the call for unity. But if, after...
...Force KC-135 transport circled Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport for 30 minutes to enable a flight of F-100 Supersabres to roar off for a sortie. By the time the KC-135 was down and hatch open, the sudden October monsoon was whipping a veritable wall of water in its face. There on the strip stood a U.S. brigadier general and dozens of pretty Vietnamese girls in sodden turquoise and white ao dais. "If they care enough about us to stand out there in the rain," said the first passenger, "the least we can do is stand...
...Patricia Gozzi-three years older than she was in Sundays and Cybele and just as wise-blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are all changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell...
Crediting the sudden reversal by the Office of Education to a phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daly, a powerful figure in the Democratic Party, to President Johnson, Chicago civil rights leaders decried the release of the $30 million as "a shameless display of power." The Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, the Chicago civil rights group that made the original charge of de facto segregation in July, triggering the HEW's investigation, announced that it will file a complaint with the State Superintent of Public Instruction and with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to try to stop...