Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edward ... heard a great whooshing sound and in the same instant saw the elevator shaft fill with a sudden rocketlike uprush of flame and gas, a blazing cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...cutting hair. The next thing I know, I look up and all of a sudden there's smoke everywhere," said John Mitchell, a barber at Custom Barber-Shop on the opposite side of Brattle Street...
Sometimes, the capital's barometric pressure takes a sudden turn. One night you go to bed and independent counsel Kenneth Starr is a straight-shooting, courtly lawyer who can rise above politics. The next day you get up and Starr is Clinton's sworn enemy, with ties to the tobacco industry and right-wing foundations that would benefit greatly were Clinton to be crippled by Starr's findings on Whitewater and lose re-election. Clinton wouldn't touch a question about Starr until last Thursday. Then, asked whether Starr should step down, he said, "The facts are what they...
There are no holds barred in the war rhetoric. Microsoft founder Bill Gates likened Netscape's sudden success to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. And Netscape president James Barksdale said his company was "in a heightened state of awareness...
...mean, why do you have to go out of your way to bash us? I honestly believe that if we had sold 100,000 records, people would have nice things to say about us. At the beginning of the record there were nice reviews ... and all of a sudden--BOOM!--we're the worst band in the world...