Word: suddenness
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...football correspondent, Halberstam analyzed and criticized the character of his subjects. His September 1952 account of “the sudden departure” (read: firing) of Yale’s 300-pound coach is just one example...
...sudden pursuit of hipness among the nation’s tree-hugging, granola crunchers...
...hard to tell if she'd quite captured what the crowd was searching for. And as she let loose with her final assertion - "We will prevail! We will prevail! We will prevail!" - there was a terrifying split-second when no one clapped, and you could feel a sudden fear run through the place, that the community hadn't, in fact, come together, that they wouldn't prevail...
...irascible, quick to anger and quick to act on his anger - he has a bad habit of killing people before he quite realizes what he's doing (though he's always remorseful afterwards). "Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery," Tolkien writes, "and he could be sudden and fierce. Yet he was quick to pity, and the hurts or sadness of living things might move him to tears." A dark cloud follows him, and Tolkien lays on the omens of foreboding: you get the sense that Túrin was born under an unlucky star...
...going back to the changeup for the finish, Perlman sent first baseman Marc Sawyer back to the bench swinging and then caught third baseman Pedro Obregon staring to strike him out. “It was big for the coaching staff seeing a kid like that all of a sudden become a bulldog like that, especially when he was facing the heart of their lineup, in the way that he just dissected all three of them,” Walsh said. Perlman came back for the seventh frame and fanned two more Bulldog batters on his way to capping...