Fifty years later, in 2013, electronic cigarettes had suddenly mushroomed into a billion-dollar industry.
Between any two given cities, two or three standard airfares had suddenly mushroomed into a chaos of new airlines, schedules, and tariffs, all subject to change without notice.
But then, three miles in, as we joined the main "red start" field, the crowds lining the streets suddenly mushroomed, and the noise was deafening.
Now, having arrived on day one, they are veterans of the new emergency camp that has suddenly mushroomed at Kawargosk on a previously deserted patch of open plain to the west of Erbil, the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Just look at the crop of gourmet coffee shops like Think Coffee, Gregorys Coffee, Blue Bottle Coffee and Stumptown Coffee Roasters, which have suddenly mushroomed in cities like New York and beat Starbucks at its own game.
There was palpable excitement in the jeep I was in as the crowds lining our route to the jalsa grew; then, suddenly, they mushroomed.
"With some mushrooms, eh? Have you tried the mushroom soup?" Suddenly the old woman answered in her deep robotic bass.
New York City health officials are growing increasingly worried that this strain of meningitis, which is an inflammation of the lining around the brain and the spinal cord, is so insidious that it could suddenly mushroom into a major outbreak, claiming many lives before anything can be done to stop it.
Suddenly, my isolated environment mushroomed out to experience cultures and places totally foreign to me.
He could feel her clitoris begin to touch his upper lip.... Suddenly she shivered and cried out, and the aroma of her sex mushroomed around him, tangy and rich and erotic.
