Word: abrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of banana peels. It lasted 31 hours, with only three recesses. Then journalists and an eager Paris crowd were permitted to swarm into the galleries. They looked down on a Chamber filled with good humor. Some Deputies greeted the crowd with handclaps, others waved to the galleries. Abrupt silence fell as the urns were produced. The Chamber was about to vote on the supreme issue of confidence-or lack of confidence-in the general conduct of the war by Edouard Daladier...