Word: suddenness
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...Dagestan, Ingushetia - aflame. Even when the security services cracked down on alleged radical Islamists, closing mosques and harassing bearded men, few people took note. All that changed last week when around 100 heavily armed guerrillas fanned out across the city to attack at least 10 major government targets. The sudden assault completely surprised authorities, all the way to Moscow. For 24 hours, the rebels besieged Nalchik, leaving terrified inhabitants with nothing but wildly inaccurate reports from the official media to explain what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city...
...Magical Thinking” elicits much more than mere pity or sympathy in the reader.“Magical Thinking” is Didion’s account of the year following her husband John Gregory Dunne’s death of “a sudden massive coronary event” on the evening of December 30, 2003. Five days prior to Dunne’s death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne had gone to the emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia, and then slipped into septic shock. These two events and their aftermath...
...feet kicking) responded with appropriate late-’90s finesse to the ska-laced beat of “Frenchy, I’m Faking.” With big band grandeur, two trombones from the band crossed slides, hurling more syncopated grace at the dancer. With sudden fear, his feet were not his own but those of another, less laden with curiosity and daring. A missed beat turned into a shuffle, a pause, and then a failed pitch at recovery.No one could fault the loser. A dance duel created through Architecture in Helsinki smacks of peril. An eight...
...ever find yourself walking around Cambridge and realize, all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, that something smells like fermented anal leakage? You may fear that you momentarily blacked out and farted, then regained consciousness and smelled the fart you made [1]. But rest assured, you are not totally insane. These mysterious pockets of stink are woven into the fabric of the ’Bridge, so we performed a thorough investigation in search of the most egregious offenders and tried to develop some coherent theory to explain their presence. Some perpetrators are obvious. The John Harvard?...
Bleeding ulcers that eat all the way through the stomach lining are a serious medical condition that can be life threatening. If you experience sharp, sudden pain in the upper abdomen or have black or bloody stools or vomiting, get emergency care...