Word: abrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past 20 years Siberia has been the stage for one of the swiftest, most abrupt and feverish social and political developments the world has known. How massive that development may be, the rest of the world began to suspect when most of the industrial Ukraine went under, and Russia continued to arm herself from the Siberian arsenal...
Earnest Rex Tugwell is not noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...
...Francisco's 1934 dock strike West coast shippers-and then the whole U.S.-suddenly became aware of a gaunt, nervous man who talked with a cockney-like accent and abrupt gestures. He was fast gaining power over organized U.S. longshoremen. Australian-born Harry Bridges was wary, shrewd, and almost telepathically able to guess shipowners' moves before they were made. He led longshoremen with a dictatorial hand, rose to be named West Coast C.I.O. chief...
...isolated nature of Harvard. Sam Adams did not build a revolution out of tolerance, and the CIO did not establish a Ford local by deferring to the rationalizations of a strong-arm Service Department. Even teachers, when they have emerged from the academic dust, can be tolerant. Note the abrupt action of the conservative leadership of the American Federation of Teachers when three progressive locals had become strong enough to threaten its domination. Assuming the prevalence of the "professional disease," there is but one logical course--to cure, or at least remedy, the ailment...
Last week from hat-famed Leghorn came an abrupt style switch, a harsh pull-'em-down order. Snarled Telegrafo, newspaper of Count Galeazzo Ciano, breeches-wearing husband of pants-wearing (TIME, July 14) Edda Mussolini...