Word: suddenness
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...incipient civil war in Iraq, the fear is of an escalation of the current insurgency into a much bigger war. Analysts may have in mind something like the U.S. Civil War, with Sunni and Shi'ite armies fighting each other across well-defined fronts. Or they may imagine a sudden spasm of massive communal conflict and ethnic cleansing along the lines of Bosnia or Rwanda. Neither scenario is all that likely, although bouts of violent ethnic cleansing are certainly possible in a few parts of the country, especially Kirkuk...
...When they get going, their crowd gets going,” Housman said. “Everything gets magnified. We still have a five-point lead, but their crowd is going so crazy that it feels like we’re losing all of a sudden. Then, we stopped doing what we did to get us that lead...
...rumors turn out to be true. Phone calls are made, and all of a sudden, Polk goes from being virtually shut-out (he had received only one other role) to being...
...their own festive Jack-O-Larrys. With a pin of the pattern to the pumpkin, viola! Summers’ smirk glowed eerily throughout the night. December 4, 2003 FM got the scoop on Summers’ “low-carb, high-tennis” diet. Summers’ suddenly lean look shocked students, and FM was determined to get to the bottom of the sudden weight loss. The presidential secret was Atkins, with a good helping of cake and cookies on the side. “For this expert in deflation and fiscal-belt tightening, being...
...said her California upbringing had taught her to deal with earthquakes and other sudden crises. “To me it’s part of that fatalistic California psyche that things can happen in nature out of nowhere, making you feel suddenly and completely out of control,” she said...