Word: suddenness
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...argument, that there are Muslims energized by Iraq--who were not energized by Western colonialism, American imperialism, Hollywood decadence, the Roosevelt-Saud alliance, the Afghan war, Zionism, feminism or other alleged outrages against Islam. They were living contentedly, tending their shoe shop in Riyadh, and all of a sudden they discovered the joys of jihad and the lure of heavenly posthumous sex awaiting them at the other end of a suicide bombing...
...Even if I had heard it infrequently, their speech was familiar, a forgotten song replayed on the radio. I knew the sudden dips and pauses of the smooth vowels; the up-downs and down-ups of the accents; the way a thought strung out along one-syllable words will end, hesitantly, like a question mark. It was the same song I had heard in my aunt’s house and at my grandparents’ dinner table. It sounded like deep bowls of noodle soup and bright fish sauce, incense burning in a dark temple and the yellow dust...
...case, she recalls, she and her colleagues watched a group of dolphins assemble around a female swimmer the researchers later learned was exhausted to the point at which she was afraid for her life. "Conversely," Frohoff says, "I have been 'abandoned' [by dolphins], where all of a sudden they'd disappear and I'd see a shark...
Thomas J. Blake ’98 and Chu constituted a Harvard alumni duo in the evening’s first match, demonstrating strong game management early before succumbing in a sudden-death match tiebreaker to fall...
...sudden philanthropic largesse...