Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberalized obscenity statute, the abrupt about-face of the Watch and Ward Society, the realization that banned material all too often gained valuable publicity--these are some of the reasons which account for today's far less frequent censoring or prosecutions of major literary works...
...does the hula, it's a bit like watching your aunt get roaring drunk at a party. It's nice to see she has the spirit, but it's also a little embarrassing. The introduction to the new Miss Davis in the second scene of Two's Company is abrupt and somewhat painful. She manages her high kicks with admirable but all too obvious effort, and her rasping, often inaudible singing voice inspires vicarious throat-clearing in the audience...
...abrupt, clanking noise was heard in Paris. It was the sound of the Communist line changing, and changing so rapidly that some of the Red-faced comrades got caught in the gears...
...supposedly routine meeting of the French cabinet one day last week produced an announcement that had all the contours of a big diplomatic monkey wrench. The French, in an abrupt departure from the agreed-upon tactics of the Big Three allies, asked for a four-power conference with Russia on the question of Germany...
...refused to dismiss the case, instead issued a temporary injunction to force nine gambling houses to put their regular ads back. Said Judge Foley: "The conspirators . . . cut off [the Sun's] bloodstream of existence . . . The abrupt cancellation of the advertising could very well [bring about] discontinuance of ... the newspaper." Judge Foley did not rule on whether McCarran had anything to do with the conspiracy. That will be decided when the Sun's main action goes to trial...