Word: abrupt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from one sprawling canvas to the next, fled 45 minutes after he arrived. One distinguished Spaniard, steeped in the traditions of El Greco and Velasquez, asked: "If this is art, what was it that Goya painted? You certainly can't compare the two." The abrupt reply from a partisan of the show...
...feudal as Nasser's partner, the Imam of Yemen, and Nasser himself has yet to allow democracy). The West has incurred Arab hate by its Israeli policy. It also acknowledged Nasser's genuine popularity, and hesitated to risk a showdown. With Iraq's abrupt fall, there was no longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle East: Nasser was moving toward absolute domination. Had there been any real manifestation of substantial internal resistance to the coup in Iraq, the U.S. and Britain were in position, if not necessarily in the mood, to roll right...
Switch of String. Last month the idyllic arrangement came to an abrupt end. Iv Eng Seng fled from the embassy with her month-old baby boy to a London nursing home and complained that Sary had severely beaten her "for minor mistakes." Nonsense, replied Ambassador Sary gallantly: "I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip...
...first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had gone seven months without being accepted, while Nasser tried to wangle better terms), the Russians were reneging on an agreement signed and sealed...
...Forces. The human body can stand travel at any rate of speed provided that it is constant. What hurts is a too-abrupt change in speed or direction. Standard of measurement for such changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only...