Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...peace is menaced by Benito Mussolini, at least, like an honest rattlesnake, he jangles his sword (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Stalin acts without warning. At his sudden fiat, Trotsky (a Communist with a greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...last moment Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, received a sudden mysterious message from President Hoover on the Rapidan...
...nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts was said to have caused "panics" in the smaller villages. At Athens and Bucharest the respective ministers of agriculture organized bands of exterminators...
...first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...