Word: suddenness
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...occasionally there are signs that Sonia may share some of the crowd's feelings. In four long, hot days of campaigning, she visibly relaxes only once?when she calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds...
...enough to start the season over again. The Crimson began the day a game up on Brown and Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe standings, and it concluded it in a four-way tie for first place at 7-3. The too-short Ivy League season was all of a sudden even shorter, beginning again with only 10 games remaining on the schedule...
...with just four minutes to play against No. 16 Cornell, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team surrendered two late goals—including the equalizer with just 54 seconds remaining—then watched as the Big Red ended the game on the first shot of sudden death overtime, dealing the Crimson (4-4, 0-2 Ivy) a 9-8 loss and delighting the numerous Cornell fans (5-2, 2-1) in attendance...
...Iraq in a prepared speech while, a thousand miles away and a few inches over on the screen, the aftermath of a massive car bombing in Baghdad flared and billowed in the night. Somewhat less dramatically, a news ticker gave a running account of last week’s sudden anti-American uprising in Iraq, while Dr. Rice testified to the Sept. 11 Commission that our actions in Iraq were removing a source of “violence and fear and instability in the world’s most dangerous region.” Then, on Sunday, Chris Matthews showed...
...problem is remarkably common but woefully underdiscussed. According to the American Urological Association, about 1 in 5 U.S. women over age 50 suffers from stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the tendency to leak urine when the bladder is stressed by running, jumping, sneezing, coughing or other activities. Urge incontinence, the sudden unbearable need to urinate, is far less common...