Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing role than the Air Force is willing to admit. ¶ In Palo Alto, Calif., Brigadier General Carl Hutton, boss of the Army...
...after Benson abruptly cut dairy support prices by 15 parity points, the President called his Secretary of Agriculture to the White House and asked whether the action might not have been too abrupt. Then Old Soldier Eisenhower drew some lines on a piece of scratchpaper to show Old Farmer Benson that, in military action, there are two ways to reach an objective-the direct way, and by a zigzag approach. Advised Ike: try to understand the merits of the zigzag...
...abrupt change from familiar controls to chancy freedom might be no great trick for a South American dictatorship, ruled by decree; but in democratic Chile the reform is going ahead by vote of Congress, which is convinced that austerity is what the people want. One politico, who at first opposed the change, admitted last week, "We underestimated the civic conscience of our people...
...director also shows a little uncertainty as to the character of young Dr. John--moments of real sympathy are followed without the slightest pause by moments of animal sensuality. Equally crude and abrupt is the lighting, which changes not at all smoothly. The musical background is occasionally appropriate--most of it is urgent and discordant, indicating psychological collapse, but clashing stridently with the Southern scene. The set, however, is good enough, and with Miss Boyko upon it, it becomes superb. For her, and her alone, Summer and Smoke is a modest triumph: if she does...
Silverstein looked over the script again. Lewis came in, and he asked him about Kennedy's first appearance. "It's pretty abrupt, Andy. Kennedy says, 'This is tutorial,' and then we have to pan away from him immediately. Not too good...