Word: abrupt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle Eastern Correspondent William McHale had an exclusive interview with Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, and the Premier gave McHale an autographed photograph of himself. Before McHale could get it to press, the interview was being broadcast four times daily over the government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom had been in Iraq...
...hours mean the difference between life and death. The human body cannot survive unless at least one kidney is doing its job of filtering the body's waste products from the blood so that they can be voided in the urine. A variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin) which the overloaded natural kidneys cannot void...
...Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen...
...York Herald Tribune, and now associate publisher of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, traces the history and analyzes the present state of U.S. and Soviet schools in a manner that might unsettle educationists of either nation. Particularly fascinating is the author's account of the rise, and the abrupt, inglorious fall of progressive education in the U.S.S.R. When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, Hechinger reports, they inherited a system of schools, serving only the children of the upper classes, that was as good as any other in Europe. But in a period when Russian diplomats proved themselves good proletarians...
...peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square black flags are a dancing arpeggio. Movement of eye and mind is brought to a massive stop at the looming palace gate...