Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Karl Vaugoin. also Defence Minister in Dr. Seipel's Cabinet, was nominated, cries of "Monarchist!" disturbed the stillness of the Assembly. It was remembered that, after the War, he had had an abrupt manner of ridding the Arm}' of Socialists and Communists...
...citizen and a taxpayer marched into the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, last week, with a bodyguard of lawyers and counselors-at-law. At his right hand was Wilton J. Lambert, Washington attorney, centurion of the bodyguard. Such was the abrupt appearance of William B. Shearer, plaintiff?described in papers which his lawyers proceeded to file as a citizen and a taxpayer as well as a qualified naval expert and the inventor of a type of one-man torpedo boat, the Sea Hornet, sold to the Government during the War. One other person was described in the papers...
Election day brought the campaign to an abrupt demise...
...Alaska. There Mr. Harding became ill?the first untoward event of the trip. Then homeward they came; a glorious stop at Vancouver; a collision at night with a destroyer in the mists of Puget Sound; a review of the fleet; a terribly strenuous day in Seattle; indigestion; bronchial pneumonia; abrupt termination of the trip at San Francisco; a stroke of apoplexy?death. (TIME...
...feet. In his arms was the ball, 56 yards in front of him was the Brown goal line, nothing between. Until that moment, Brown had been ahead by the hair's breadth of a field goal; after that they were four points behind. Demoralized by so abrupt a slight of fortune, they failed to stop Lindley of Yale from crossing the line again, went home defeated, 13 to 3. If the pigskin used in the Harvard-Dartmouth exhibition had been retained by the animal which it originally covered, then greased, and in that state put in play, the feats...