Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, to an acceptable degree, we'll prove this. Anyway, now all of a sudden we saw this guy who was much hated, and who we knew was the lackey of Americans, suddenly in the U.S. for "medical" treatment. The guy is reportedly dying of cancer, yet he receives Kissinger and talks to him for 1 ½ hours. Then our government politely demands that if that's the case, well, for our public opinion, be nice enough and allow Iranian physicians to go check. That request was refused by the U.S. Government. Then we realize that...
Then after the revolution, the U.S. promised that we'd let bygones be bygones, we're going to create new relations, and we're not going to intervene. And all of a sudden we detected agitation at various places. And everywhere, as it turned out, we saw the fingers of the Americans...
...asked for a debate earlier, and had been turned down. And all of a sudden there was a telegram from the Secretary-General asking us to participate -please come in 24 hours, and the U.S. has agreed on it. Well, that was for us rather a surprise. We believe that the decision to go ahead with a Security Council debate now means that the Americans have...
...possible pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk taker," but it was his first flight on that particular polar route. One theory was that he may have been battered by a sudden "cat"-a burst of vicious clear-air turbulence. Others speculated that Collins might have been the victim of the most treacherous hazard in polar flying: a "whiteout," when blowing snow can cause even the most experienced pilots to lose all sense of perspective and direction...
Goodman's knowing explorations of change and its debilitating side effects have made her the sudden sensation of America's editorial pages. First syndicated in 1976, her twice-weekly column now appears in 207 papers, 45 of which have signed on this year. A collection of her pieces, Close to Home (Simon & Schuster; $9.95), was published last month. The book's 109 selections show Goodman at her evenhanded best, a cool stream of sanity flowing through a minefield of public and private quandaries. "The thinking woman's Erma Bombeck," says an editor at the Los Angeles...