Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine dark eyes . . . did not impress me either as 'gentle,' as one observer thought, or 'cold as steel,' as others have remarked, but they are alert, expressive and intelligent ... He seems at times actually benign. There is no question but that he can be brutally abrupt...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
Munch seems to take considerable liberties with his classical music. Long dramatic pauses, and abrupt changes in tempo sound a mite strange. In the third movement of the Beethoven, there were moments of uncertainty in the Orchestra, signs of the difficult change of interpretation. But it is nothing serious, and Munch's first concert indicates that Symphony Hall is going to be rocked back on its heels in the weeks to come...
...concert came to an abrupt end as band members beat a hasty retreat to the waiting buses...
After 22 costly months, the strike of 1,500 printers on Chicago's five major daily newspapers came to an abrupt end last week. The settlement closely fitted the publishers' terms. President Woodruff Randolph of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union told his strike-weary printers to accept a $10 weekly wage boost (to $95.50)-the same offer he had high-handedly ordered them to reject six months ago, after Chicago's Local 16 had approved it. The strikers had lost $13 million in wages, and the I.T.U. had paid $1 i million in strike benefits and costs...