Word: suddenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has to be some explanation for the Crimson's collapse after the first period. Did some Yalie prankster tie Harvard's skates together? Was there a sudden outbreak of tuberculosis in the locker room? Did a drunken Zamboni driver miss a spot...
Until Donato scores the game-winner with 37 seconds left in sudden death...
Krayer backhands a shot past Gopher goalie RobbStauber in sudden-death to quiet the partisanMinnesota crowd and start a Crimson celebration.Donato is named tournament MVP. Two days later,MacDonald is awarded the Hobey Baker Award...
...Even so, as Baker points out, it would still make sense for the U.S. to "lock in" gains by helping Soviet bloc nations become more independent and by securing agreements that make mutually beneficial arms reductions. In addition, the changes in Eastern Europe have progressed so far that a sudden reversal becomes less likely every day. In the worst-case scenario, a hard-liner -- even Gorbachev -- could crack down in Moscow tomorrow. But could he reverse the course of events in Hungary and Poland? Could he ensure the loyalty of troops in Eastern Europe...
...vanish. The earth liquefies. It becomes as wild as surf. The solid is abruptly fluid. Normally, earth is the refuge, the stability, the foundation of things. The earth should be alive only to grow vegetables and flowers. Now the earth itself becomes a beast, all teeth and gashes and sudden topplings. Reality has turned molten and violent...