Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the collaborators and ex-fascists on his staff, Poujade is abrupt: "I'm tired of people looking for lice in my hair. I fought the Germans and I know what resistance is. I don't need anybody to give me lessons in patriotism." Asked one man at a recent Saint-Céré meeting: "But what about tax reform?" Snapped Poujade: "That's precisely what we're fighting for, but to achieve real basic reforms we must reform the whole system...
Edward McCully, the strapping son of a Milwaukee bakery executive, was a normal, wholesome, small-college boy who played end on the football team, was elected class president, won the oratory contest and planned to study law. Then, in an abrupt, private decision, Ed decided to become a foreign missionary. After a year's study and training, the Good News Chapel of the Wauwatosa, Wis. Plymouth Brethren Fundamentalist Church sent him to Ecuador...
...Kong, its banks and godowns, was founded for "the China trade." But in the first eight months of last year, imports from Red China represented 23% of Hong Kong's imports, and exports to China represented a relatively minor 8% of all the colony's exports. This abrupt decline began with the trade embargo during the Korean war, promoted by the U.S. and accepted by a reluctant Britain and a reluctant Hong Kong. But the decline also reflects Red China's own increasing reliance on overland trade with Soviet Russia and the satellites...
...himself. One time he and his then assistant, Charles F. Willis Jr., walked out of Adams' office to discover that two of his four stenographers had obviously been weeping. Startled, Adams beat a hasty retreat. "What are they crying about-what did I do?" Adams asked. "You were abrupt and somewhat rude," replied Willis. "Oh no," said Adams. "Oh yes," said Willis. "What'll I do?" asked Adams. "I think you ought to say something to them," advised Willis. "Well-all right," said Adams hesitantly. He returned to the outer office, gazed awkwardly at the girls...
...hospital as a weaning station or halfway house for patients who have been in the Allan Institute's full-time hospital and need help in readjusting to the world at large. For patients who might find the transition from the day hospital to life "on the outside" too abrupt, the Allan Institute has just added a "three-quarter-way house": an evening treatment center where electrotherapy and mild insulin treatments are given, and blood samples taken for various laboratory tests. The evening hours make it possible for a worker to attend without taking time off from...