Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closer an armistice came, the more indignant the South Korean government became. Bitter old Syngman Rhee sat in his presidential mansion in Seoul, abrupt to General Mark Clark, who called on him, angry at President Eisenhower, who wrote him. Twice during the week, 78-year-old President Rhee said that he would go along with the U.S., then reversed himself. "We cannot accept any armistice so long as the Chinese remain in Korea-make no mistake about that," he said. "But if we feel forced to take unilateral action, we will talk it over, as friend to friend...
Exploding Verse. In the age of Tennyson, Hopkins' poetry no doubt seemed strange and obscure to the Jesuit editor who turned it down. It is not easy reading today. One reason is Hopkins' abrupt rhythm-"sprung rhythm," he called it, which he chose "because it is the nearest to the ... natural rhythm of speech." Another barrier between the casual reader and Hopkins' verse is his strange construction. He often used words out of their natural order, omitted connectives altogether. He also made up words (inscape, scapish, instress...
While the group grew larger and the noise increased, someone yelled "on to Radcliffe." Then the mob raced up the Yard, past Hollis and Stoughton. It turned right at Holworthy and came to an abrupt stop there when a proctor appeared...
...Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. From the moment when he pounces on the nameless narrator of the story with an abrupt offer-"Taking me with you? ... I can make soups you've never heard or thought of"-Zorba makes the heroes of most modern fiction seem like dyspeptic ghosts...
...that Rosalind Russell has proved the experts wrong again, she finds TIME's approach different from that of anyone else who has ever interviewed her. Recently, when her sister phoned her at her hotel suite, she explained her abrupt manner by saying: "You see, I'm living with TIME magazine people. In fact, they're here now." And she has been hearing ever since from various people who have been interviewed by TIME correspondents: the girl who lived next door in Waterbury, Conn., her mother, brother, sisters, many of her associates, and an old schoolteacher, who called...