Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been heading," noted one political commentator* recently, "can be answered simply. All his skills and energies-and he has been among our hardest-working Presidents-have been directed to standing still ... to work himself back close to the center spot of indecision from which he started." In his abrupt seizure of the nation's $10 billion steel industry last week, Harry Truman decisively brought to an end the immediate threat of a critical strike. But his action left the dispute over steel itself, and the future of the whole wage-price stabilization program, right where it started: tangled, confused...
Cubans hardly needed to be told. Political foes rushed to make deals with the new boss. Gangsters stopped shooting at each other. Employers reported an abrupt end to such familiar nuisances as wildcat strikes and absenteeism. Cubans remembered Batista. In the past, he had used castor oil, midnight arrests or gunplay; his soldiers had ruthlessly put down abortive rebellions. He could afford to be economical with the weapon of terror. "It is my destiny to make bloodless revolutions," he bragged-and added a significant qualification: "The only blood spilled will be that of those who oppose...
...When she accidentally discovers a key in Robert's pocket that leads to the apartment of a suspected Communist girl spy, she decides to cooperate with FBI Man Van Heflin in bringing her son to justice. At that point, Robert, about to fly to Lisbon, has an abrupt change of political heart. While trying to get to the FBI, he is shot by fellow Communists in a wild auto chase through the capital, and dies on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A confession he recorded before his death* is played' back as the commencement address...
Everywhere Taft stopped in New Hampshire he drew attentive crowds. But he was abrupt and cold in greeting local leaders, brushed off autograph hunters and handshakers, cut short or sidestepped questioners. He charged that nobody knows what Dwight Eisenhower stands for, inquired slyly whether Ike would dare to attack the Truman Administration. In retrospect, some of Taft's own organization men granted that he offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were...
...organized veterans group at the University came to an abrupt end yesterday when Roy F. Gootenberg '49, teaching fellow in Government, and a past chairman of the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, announced that the chapter had disbanded...