Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ehrenburg is all out of sympathy with any solution less than the abrupt "struggle for equality" which he predicts. While full of understanding for the exploited, he has none for the problem itself, and no answer but the one which he repeats with a certain mechanical frequency reminiscent of the prayerwheel spinners. Most conspicuous is the handling of the history of the southern problem, which is handled not at all. Readers of "Izvestia" now stand convinced that America has been indicted of crimes it ignores with true capitalistic brutality and neglects to remedy in the manner of courtiers...
Hardheaded economists saw a good many flaws in the World Food Board Plan devised by Britain's Sir John Boyd Orr, director-general of U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. But the U.S.'s abrupt rejection of it last week illuminated a more important defect: the inability of U.S. Government departments to agree on policy...
...reply too abrupt...
...Professor Hooton has been chosen primarily because his lectures are given in the laymen's language, but also, he has become a colorful public figure, an abrupt exponent of his theories," the March of Time said yesterday...
Died. Yosuke Matsuoka, 66, U.S.-educated, slyly U.S.-hating Japanese Foreign Minister (1940-41) who promoted and signed both the Tripartite Pact with the Axis powers and the Neutrality Pact with Russia, then died an abrupt political death when Germany attacked Russia; of tuberculosis, arthritis and complications; while on sick leave from his trial as a war criminal; in Tokyo...