Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abrupt and militant, it knocked into a Red soldier's turnip-shaped helmet the soothing assertions by Soviet publicists in recent weeks that Russia's leaders have abandoned the objective of her late, great Dictator Nikolai Lenin: to foment "the World Revolution of the Proletariat" by every practicable means including, when advisable, intervention by the Red Army. Order No. 173 is specific. It instructs every Red Army commander "to train each Red Soldier to be devoted in heart and in soul to the World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time...
Between times, because he has no angel to finance his expeditions, Father Hubbard goes after lecture money. Then Easterners may see his pleasant face, his tousled mop of black hair, his excellent motion pictures, and hear him tell in his abrupt, boyish voice what he has seen and done. But he dislikes cities, is always curious to be off to Alaska. Last spring he was off to investigate the geological and archeological history of the Aleutian Islands, and last week he was back in Seattle with news...
...visualize our immediate future. In 1914 military bluster and parading idiocy were controlling the German state; Europe was tense and waiting; friction in the Balkans was apparent and unpleasantly suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened...
...demanding that the Government repeg prices. No such action was taken. Next morning the grain pits reopened and prices promptly dropped another level lower: dropped and bounced. They mounted rapidly and closed with substantial gains for the day. Thereafter they swung up and down, but neither sudden disaster nor abrupt boom followed. Cause of the arrested fall was guesswork. Some attributed it to talk of the formation of a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 pool (President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade admitted a pool had been discussed) to buy up "distress grain" which threatened...
...likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which ... I wrote . . . nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came." He has had two rides on Pegasus; he wants no more. This abrupt reverence would be a rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request for a definition of poetry, he replied that he "could no more define poetry than a terrier...