Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headless Dictatorship. This sudden and cataclysmic shifting of power at the top came as a shock to the audience. Nothing in the previous day's debate had prepared them for the abrupt announcements. Even the high-ranking generals among the Deputies had been surprised. It had all happened behind closed doors, within that narrow circle of men who, each fearful for his own life, had tried to create a headless dictatorship with checks and balances, and had failed. In the party Presidium pew Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around...
Pressures which forced Georgi Malenkov to relinquish his position as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1953 probably caused the Russian prime minister's abrupt resignation, a Russian authority at the University said yesterday...
Manhattan Adman Frank Egan explains that the new trend is simply an effort by sponsors to make commercials as painless as possible for viewers: "In radio you could use a musical bridge between the entertainment and the message so that the commercials didn't seem so abrupt and jarring. But on TV, if you interrupt audience attention to plunge into a commercial, viewers get resentful." For this reason nearly all TV hosts and masters of ceremonies are supposed to ease the way into the sales message...
Manuel Gálvez' abrupt departure for the Panama Canal Zone "for medical treatment" thrust Lozano into the presidency, just in time to meet a major political crisis out of which he emerged as boss...
Last week's abrupt dismissal of career diplomat John Paton Davies on security grounds has heightened the atmosphere of tension in the State Department and may further discourage qualified college students from entering the foreign service, three University faculty members warned yesterday...