Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Additional enterprises are in the works. A report of Dustin M. Burke, an H.S.A. director, says "it is hoped that one or two new businesses may be added each year to continue this growth process." The sudden creation of H.S.A., its impressive expansion and ambitious plans have aroused criticism. Established businessmen in the Square have feared the strategic position of H.S.A. in student sales; undergraduate publications, its potential as a competitor for advertising revenue; and other student businesses, its seeming desire to absorb all undergraduate enterprises into itself...
...Brown, O'Neill tackled something formidably complex: both the conflict within a divided personality and divided selves clashing with one another. The use of masks has visual value; the sudden shifts in character and the transference of personality have theatrical force. But the conflicts that concerned O'Neill are among the eternal conflicts of stage drama. They are more rewarding when the audience must distinguish the face from the mask, or when the two are not easily distinguishable. Theatrical without being dramatic, O'Neill created men with two profiles but without any face...
...conventions, NBC decided to send in some fresh faces, dispatched Huntley from New York and Brinkley from Washington, expecting them to spell each other. They made it a team operation, brought off the assignment so handsomely that NBC decided to make them a habit. (Said Brinkley wryly of this sudden prominence: "I did what I'd been doing for years, but people paid attention.") In October 1956, Huntley and Brinkley-who had not even met before their paths crossed at the conventions-went on the air with the two-headed, 15-minute newscast, have been there ever since...
...official sources were struck with sudden silence. In the past the usual comment was that Russian space vehicles are big and brawny because of more powerful launching rockets, but that U.S. space vehicles, small and elegant, made up for the Russians' gross size by their sophistication...
...rigid fiscal discipline of the gold standard would act as a brake on inflation by preventing governments from overspending, head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help stabilize prices, and step up the flow of capital-and thus international trade-by making all currencies freely convertible into gold...