Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...
...Instead of the brassy blare that comes from ordinary trumpets, Chefs horn usually sounded something like a clarinet with a frog in its throat-intimate, soft, agile. Starting at fast tempo, he doubled it to play his rapid-fire arabesques, never muffed a note right down to the pointedly abrupt ending...
Glass, director of aviation for the Port of New York Authority, which operates Teterboro Airport. Citing airport witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
...rejection is of course not uncommon in contemporary music but some glimmer of compensation is expected in such cases. I saw none in Mr. Bavicchi's Sonata for Two Pianos. Passages of elementary and conventional sentimentality were occasionally introduced only to be brutally transformed into sequences of unrelenting harshness. Abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm marked no inventive richness; rather, they seemed indicative on one composer's inability to develop any one thought. Any unique merit may well be missed in a first hearing and I hope I may have a chance to re-evaluate this piece...
...audience: "That was Julie's swan song with us. He goes now out on his own, as his own star, soon to be seen in his own program, and I know you wish him Godspeed same as I do. Bye-bye!" Godfrey's abrupt sacking of Crooner La Rosa, which was news to Julius, was also a Page One story to newspapers across the country.* It was quickly made even juicier by the added information that Bandleader Archie Bleyer, 44, a longtime Godfrey regular, had been fired the same day from the daytime and Wednesday shows, would work...