Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trieste agreement as one that "will promote . . . normal relations . . . and thus contribute toward a relaxation of tension." In his last words on the subject a year ago, Vishinsky had vowed to veto exactly such a solution, which replaced the peace-treaty provision for U.N.-directed internationalization. The abrupt about-face caught Italy's Reds flatfooted. On the day Vishinsky blessed the Trieste arrangement, Red Deputies in Italy's Chamber called it an "Atlantic sellout...
COFFEE PRICES, pulled down by an abrupt slide in wholesale prices (TIME, Aug. 30), dipped below $1 a pound in most stores. Retail prices may go even lower because U.S. Agriculture Department crop reporters predict a surplus next year...
Good for Progress. On the evidence of his first days in office it was clear that Castillo Armas planned no abrupt swing to the right. His coup came to Guatemala in the midst of a ten-year-old social revolution against a series of dictatorships that had ruled for 105 years before. The rebel, who sided with Arbenz in the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico, has no nostalgia for the old days. Last week he promised to consolidate all "social reforms benefiting the working class" and to "continue the public works begun by our enemies." Land redistribution, which...
...University of Southern California went on the air last November over UHF station KTHE (cost: $175,000; annual operating budget: $250,000), supported by funds from Oil Tycoon Allan Hancock, former USC board chairman. But with Hancock's abrupt resignation, KTHE may now have to continue on a "restricted-time basis." Surest sign of progress to date: the number of UHF sets in the Los Angeles area has jumped from...
...Reed's committee already wanted the one-year trade-agreement extension. With the contented smile of a cat after swallowing the canary, Dan Reed proclaimed: "I'm part of the Administration." Maple & Vine. Democrats saw a way to make political hay of the President's abrupt retreat. Tennessee's Freshman Senator Albert Gore announced that he would try to substitute the Randall proposals (threeyear extension, authority to cut all tariffs 5% per year) for the one-year extension...