Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Georgia recently a suspected murderer could not be found, but his friend could. After the mob had revenged itself on Friend Turner, Mrs. Turner threatened court action. For that she was strung up by the heels, her clothes drenched with gasoline, wrapped in sudden flames. She was pregnant at the time. "Mister, you ought to've heard that nigger wench howl!" When the flames went out, a man stepped up with a knife and made sure her unborn child died...
From the Government benches across the House came an immediate answer? decisive, sudden bullets flew six times from the blue-steel barrel of an automatic pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch...
Decision. The suburban tone of this play was accented by a live white cat which pawed the footlights during the first act. So charming was the animal that the audience all but forgot how Nancy Lane's adopted children, and their sudden $750,000 legacy, were about to be filched from her by her wily, citified sister and brother-in-law. Later on, when the cat had slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation...
Chief factor in the sudden change was information from Washington that the Government would apply $100,000,000 of its revolving fund to help out the wheat market. As wheat closed last week at 98, and as it costs about $1.23 to raise a bushel, it was difficult to see how much lasting good $100,000,000 would do in an 880 million bushel crop. Traders, however, did not pause to work out the economics of the situation. The fact that help was coming was sufficient. Furthermore, the market had been oversold, and prices forced below their natural level were...
...long-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics came a swift and sudden rebuke last week from Dictator Josef Vissarionovich ("Steel") Stalin...