Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents; the uneasy triteness of their conversation due to their fear of saying what they really feel. Heifitz tells his story in a complicated series of flashbacks, and the transitions between them are not at all clear. As a result, the story spurts rather than flows, and abrupt climaxes leave the reader confused...
...action been taken for so long? Why the abrupt 72-hour notice? Hospital authorities refused to answer those questions. Said the Rt. Rev. Michael P. O'Shea, dean of Roman Catholic clergy in the area: "Everyone knows where the hospital stands on the question of birth control ... I am certain that every doctor, every Christian and every citizen will realize that on a question like this we cannot carry water on both shoulders." Retorted a committee of Poughkeepsie's Protestant and Jewish clergymen: "The attempt to police the thoughts and personal actions of individuals ... is un-American...
...added. The numbers involved in these military programs have varied enormously over the years. In the demobilization period after World War II, only a small percentage of the student body was interested in entering the R.O.T.C. courses, but within the last 12 months the enrollment figures have taken an abrupt upward turn...
Yesterday's Council meeting came to an abrupt halt after the business had been completed. Councilman John J. Foley rose and made a motion that the decision on Atkinson be postponed and put in the hands of the committee on finance. The other councilmen assented, and everyone walked...
...Gesell sees growth as an uninterrupted, continuous process from the moment of conception to old age; even the sudden change from life in the womb to the world outside is, to Gesell, only an uncommonly striking and abrupt phase of this continuous development. And he includes mental growth along with physical growth. "It is probable," he writes, "that all mental life has a motor basis and a motor origin. The non-mystical mind [i.e., the mind when not engaged in pure reverie] must always take hold. Even in the rarefied realms of conceptual reasoning we speak of intellectual grasp . . . Thinking...