Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abrupt firing of Commissioner Guy T. O. Holly day - although he was not personally involved - preceded exposure of Washington's newest scandal...
Before the abrupt end of the conference, President Eisenhower made an important statement about Indo-China (see above). Other topics: ¶¶On the progress of his legislative program: he tried to cultivate patience, said the President, but. he doesn't believe that he is primarily a very patient man, so when he thinks there is a course of action that looks as if it were for the good of the U.S., he is never satisfied until it is done. Though congressional leaders had assured him that the program would be enacted, he could not exaggerate the importance...
Commentators and columnists, Conservative or Socialist, everywhere condemned the manner, and frequently the matter, in Bevan's abrupt split with Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee (TIME, April 26) over approval of German rearmament and of U.S. leadership in world politics. Admitted the leftist New Statesman & Nation: "By this impulsive gesture, Mr. Bevan has postponed-possibly forever-his own chances of succeeding to the Socialist leadership." "It is the future existence of the party itself which is at stake," said the Times in alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia...
...crap tables and bingo games; they also encountered Newport's Police Chief George Gugel, and three detectives who had just dropped in "for a soft drink." Photographer Bailey snapped pictures, including one of Chief Gugel with Playtorium Proprietor Schmidt. But Bailey's picture-taking came to an abrupt...
...make matters particularly coherent or even faintly convincing. Worse yet, the play keeps shifting from romance to realism, from melodrama to comedy, and the heroine keeps going into moral huddles over the ethics of her inheritance. But she seems a pretty shabby creature for all that, with her abrupt shift of affections at the end, and not impressively moral for relinquishing one fortune in the act of marrying another...