Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israelis, who greeted the Soviet arms delivery to Egypt with hints that it might find itself driven to preventive war, and denounced Eden's talk of border compromises as "dismemberment," last week admitted privately they might have been too abrupt. They talked of a corridor across the Negev, of giving Jordan free access to the port of Haifa, of compensation for the 900,000 Palestine Arab refugees huddled on its borders. (The U.N. commission which feeds and shelters the refugees believes the problem will never be solved until the Israelis offer to take back a token number of them...
...seems quite sure why the Great Awakening in volunteer hospital work has been so abrupt. Both the General and Mental Hospital Programs have sprung to life since September, 1954. Perhaps the most valid explanation for the resurgence of interest comes from Roger W. Brown, assistant professor of Social Psychology and Social Relations head tutor...
...course, the Depression and the mounting of world problems, coupled with an increasing undergraduate awareness of the magnitude and immediacy of such problems, were not at all conducive to a humorous perspective. But this alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were legion between the years 1910 and about 1930. It has been said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires...
...attempting to imitate the French manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position in the struggle. The abrupt change in Joan's outlook when she renounces the confession is electrifying...
...prose had grown firmer. The result is that author and hero steadily mature in opposite directions. Equally upsetting is the fact that Reid did not bother to fit his three parts together very neatly. Tom enjoys two parents and a granny in the first two volumes and becomes an abrupt orphan in the third. To lose one parent, as Lady Bracknell suggests in The Importance of Being Earnest, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both seems like carelessness...