Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindsey's shuffling of Scripture is enough to discredit his book. I would rather be caught by the sudden crack of doom than live day to day in frightened contemplation...
...Bentz's two-year tenure in the classroom has come to a sudden and inglorious end; he has been arrested in Oakland on 16 felony warrants charging, of course, white-collar crimes. Bentz, a tractor salesman, is accused of bilking purchasers and bouncing checks...
...ranking Cabinet member: former Minister of Information Cornelius P. Mulder, who was Rhoodie's supervisor. Some observers believe Vorster must surely have known about the slush fund; there are also suspicions that his awareness of the impending scandal may have been an important reason behind his sudden retirement as Prime Minister last September...
...ordinating an action, with regard to what his audience expects or surmises from any given scene. He tugs at the nerves most sharply through sly scare-tactics: close calls, delays, false alarms, the expectation and possibility of violence as often as the brutal thing itself. He can make sudden action at once surprising and coherent, and, despite the relative poverty of his productions, the direction in each film is practically seamless. Nearly every scene appears to be the product of all the right decisions about where the camera should be and when it should move. Such ingenuity and control displays...
...change Washington's mood was one reason for Carter's sudden decision to head for the Middle East. Having been stung by his decline in the opinion polls, Carter was reaching for a dramatic foreign venture. By going to Cairo and Jerusalem on short notice, he might satisfy those critics who have been clamoring for him to "do something somewhere...