Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach Peter Raymond watched his charges leave the boat in funereal silence, seven seat Pasha Lakhdhir remained on the dock, his feet resting in the boat and his head buried in his arm. The letdown, the sudden drain of adrenalin and the misery of a second loss to despised Yale kept him rooted there for a good three minutes. Finally Raymond's hand descended to grab the hand of his disconcerted oarsman, and the pair walked away from the shell for moment, in the somber aftermath of defeat...
...Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...full-page ads across the country, Sears, Roebuck & Co. trumpeted a 5% reduction in its catalogue prices as a "voluntary" move "to help fight inflation." But the sudden-and suspect-volunteerism came after weeks of rising pressure from the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) and a phone call to the company's Chicago headquarters from none other than Jimmy Carter. It was the President's first such jawboning-by-wire, and the highest official he could reach was the senior vice president for public affairs; the others were out to lunch, and Chairman Edward Telling...
...past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know, and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect...
...variables. A change in either control factor from (a) to (b), (a) to (c) or (b) to (e) produce only a continuous change in behavior, represented by a gradual rise or fall along the vertical axis. An increase in factor 2 from (c) to (d), however, results in a sudden drop to (a) on the surface below, once the point crossed the edge of the fold at (d). This dramatic plunge is a catastrophe and signifies a discontinuous "jump" in behavior from one stable state to another through an unstable intermediary state, A slight decrease in factor 2 from...