Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet the chieftains who had worked underground in Rome. Arrangements made in southern Italy were bound to change when Rome was liberated and the tougher, industrial, politically sophisticated North got its first voice in free Italy's affairs. But no one outside of Italy had expected so abrupt a change, so soon after the North met the South...
...trouble lay in the abrupt, muddleheaded way the cutback had been ordered -without due notice. Henry Kaiser, in his seven months at Brewster, had laid off 7,000 men, and not even the union had protested. But the Administration had stepped in unprepared, and fumbled its first big cutback crisis. Now it had to resort to make-work, tiding over the dismissed employes until July 1, to give them "adequate" dismissal notice. The Government could put Brewster to making spare parts for other Corsair producers -but this would be highly inefficient: their manufacturing techniques differed. Was the Administration...
...helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...
...describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...
...Kremlin made no comment but, significantly, it permitted Moscow correspondents to cable a lie of a kind which had not come from Moscow since the abrupt end of the Soviet Union-German pact in 1941. The British Government spoke stiffly, swiftly: "There is no truth whatever in the story...