Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy begged off making any quick judgments of the U.S. at first sight and relapsed into the kind of tourism that is apparently inevitable with first visitors to New York. "No matter how many times you have seen it in pictures," he said, "nothing can prepare you for the sudden sight of the skyscrapers as the ship moves up the harbor. Its impact is terrific and unique." So saying, he was off to see the town-especially Wall Street, which reminded him of London's Lombard Street. He returned with cheering news for New Yorkers, saying he had found...
...sudden gale-driven snowstorm kept getting worse. Andy Archuleta could hardly see through the white swirl as he tried to keep his old Ford coupe on the drifted Wyoming road. When he was less than a mile from his home near Hillsdale (pop. 125), the car stalled for good. Andy used his head. He got out, dragged a fence post through the snow for fuel. Then he pulled off a hubcap, took it back inside .the car and lighted a little fire...
...reports of a trade war, Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corporation of America, introduced a new-type long-playing record last Tuesday that plunged the record industry into hopeless confusion. Columbia, ballyhooing an entire symphony on one record at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, was given a sudden slap in the face by RCA, which claims its speed of 45 r.p.m. is the best for "completely distortion-free music of unprecedented brilliance and clarity of tone...
...basis of Metro's interest in the Legal Medicine branch of the Medical School stems, from its function of assisting the state police in the investigation of sudden deaths, including murders. The department teaches legal medicine to both Medical and Law students...
Live Today for Tomorrow (Universal-International). On the bench, Judge Fredric March is a pitiless interpreter of the letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...