Word: suddenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AMID the swift social changes and sudden international crises of the mid-20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with...
...arms race with Russia, any serious gap in decision making can result one to five years later in a serious U.S. defense gap. This "decision lead-time" problem came sharply into focus last week when the Pentagon faced a serious, unexpected gap in top decision makers. The sudden death of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles (TIME, May 18) robbed the Pentagon of its key keeper of important policy detail just at a time when...
Harmon Killebrew still cannot get over his sudden fame, hangs his head as he jogs around the bases after,a homer as though he were almost ashimed of his feats. "I always admired Johnson," says the Killer. "Now I'm with his team. Harmon Killebrew and Walter Johnson. Silly...
...Suddenly the overcrowded boat sprang a hull leak, and a torrent of water gushed through. The Dandara came to a halt in midriver. Crewmen managed to transfer 50 passengers to a nearby barge, then desperately steered for shore. But near the bank, the panicking crowd rushed to the shoreside rails. Under the sudden weight, the Dandara slowly tipped onto its side...
Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...