Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impatience in making the changes effective this year. While the new plan may lead to further improvements in the Department's program, drawing on a comparison of senior non-honors and junior honors students taking the same examination, one more year of the old system is preferable to making abrupt demands of these who have adjusted to its less rigorous requirements, and the changes announced now should be applied...
...months of legal wrangling between the Swedish American and Italian lines over the responsibility for the An drea Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...
...efforts to bring Nasser to heel. In the U.N., the Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British and French were increasingly annoyed at U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In their view, Dulles had precipitated Nasser's anger by his abrupt decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French out of strong measures, and then, as they saw it, reneged on his implied promise to pay for an economic boycott of the canal?leaving Nasser triumphant...
...skillfully contrived scheme to make money from a "non-profit" showing Shakespeare's Henry V with Sir Lawrence Olivier came to an abrupt stop yesterday. The pirated film was on its way back to New York...
...Abrupt Departure. Outraged by the government's brazen persistence in illegality, mustachioed Enrico de Nicola, onetime (1946-48) Provisional President of Italy, made his countermove last week: he abruptly resigned as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. "The government," he declared angrily, "has shown scant appreciation of the court's work." Then, refusing to talk to anyone, De Nicola withdrew to his oleander-shrouded villa overlooking the Bay of Naples...