Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense also really changes once the season progresses into the playoffs as well--as in people play defense. All of a sudden everyone cares about winning. People need to play post defense to deal with those 6'8" ringers and things begin to look like real basketball. People have to set screens and work for good shots--during the regular season, the games often feel like pick-up games...
...thoughts and things were split. The sudden achievement of victory was a mercy to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common...
This was no sudden mood that had swept the nation. It had been growing for months. Bomb shelters were on sale in Los Angeles, but hardly anyone was buying them. Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools--at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C.T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in deep freeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines...
...which reinforced the prestige of capitalism. Capitalism, meanwhile, repaid the favor. A few years ago there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors and hungry entrepreneurs...
...When the President of the U.S. makes a sudden, unexplained move during what is supposed to be a weekend of rest, it sends a ripple of consternation across the land. That is what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June...