Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Manny did an abrupt about-face, caused the Tory Daily Mail to headline: A LABOR PLEA FOR EMPIRE-Shinwell, Cheered by Tories, Urges an Independent Britain. Manny had spoken in Parliament on Britain's future. He did not want Russia dominant in Europe: "It may . . . produce another war." He did want a strong Empire: "The strength of Great Britain . . . lies in an even better understanding with . . . the Commonwealth." He did not want to abolish capitalism: "It is only on the basis of capitalism accepting modifications in its structure . . . that it is possible for this country to survive...
Last week his case put an abrupt end to the latest crusade of the Durban police, who are forever rounding up poll-tax evaders and curfew violators. Thundered the Hon. A. A. R. Hathorn, judge-president of the Natal Supreme Court: "The police seem to expect a married man to wave his marriage certificate every time he wishes to exercise his marital rights...
Again for one day the Rockefeller millions swayed the uninitiated: led by the oils, the market nosedived. Then Dillon, Reed & Co., underwriters of a special offering of the big block of shares, made an abrupt, unembroidered announcement that the deal was off "indefinitely." Their only reason: "Mr. Rockefeller is out of town." By week's end, though the averages were back where they started, Wall Street wise guys were still guessing the reasons for the on-again-off-again news. Main guesses...
...such circumstances a soldier's temper is understandably short. Scores of the troops have spoken their minds to U.S. war correspondents. The sum of their abrupt observations has been that they have lost faith in the veracity of U.S. radio and in the U.S. press. In sectors where Britain's BBC can be heard, U.S. soldiers in general prefer its plain, unvarnished news commentaries to the high-pressure American product...
...June 1941 Harris headed an R.A.F. mission to the U.S. Although he had been in America on an earlier purchasing trip, the change from warring Britain to the half-out, half-aware U.S. of mid-1941 shocked him. But the abrupt transition after Pearl Harbor deeply impressed him, and left him with an appreciative estimate of American productive capacity...