Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly came action abrupt and typically decisive from the Monarchists, who abhor Locarno and all its works. At a caucus of the Nationalist Reichstag deputies a resolution was adopted condemning "the results of the Locarno treaties at present available...
...little direct contact between the quiet little man sitting at the head of the table absorbing facts and the air officer militant. Only at a point when Colonel Mitchell was about to read a statement did they really touch. Chairman Morrow gave him brief advice, ending with an abrupt injunction: "The Board must, of course, assume that this special part of your testimony has been prepared by you because you believe the facts set forth therein indicate the need of certain changes in organization which in your opinion will improve the service. Upon that assumption the Board's answer...
WHITE CARGO - Explaining the abrupt evaporation of English training under the ceaseless suns of desert Africa...
...laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities or nuances. He pays his subject the high honor of regarding it as more important than his treatment. The device of having the hero waver between two camps has enabled him to reveal every eddy and overtone of the abrupt little upheaval by which these colonies obtained their independence...
...which they are disturbed offset each other: and to be upset by all sorts of trivial; personal annoyances. And while the graduates are in this state of mind, at is perhaps natural that the administration in its turn should be sometimes a little irritable, a little touchy and abrupt. It is primarily a case of nerves on both sides. A little diplomatic oil here and there would remove most of the friction...