Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phil Murray's abrupt about-face came just in time to stop the Steelworkers from shutting down the furnaces in anticipation of a New Year's Eve walkout. The President broke into an impromptu press conference to pass the news along to the nation. "I am happy there will be no steel strike on Jan. 1," he said, "and I am hopeful there will be no strike...
...which Western and Arab nations would participate as equal partners in control of the Suez and general security of the Middle East (TIME, Oct. 22). The U.S., author of the plan, found some encouragement in discovering that diplomats in other Arab states, while publicly supporting Egypt's abrupt rejection of the Middle East Command, were confiding privately that they thought the Egyptians should not have been so hasty...
...sent Jacob L. Martin, a convert to Catholicism, to Rome as charge d'affaires. At that time the Papal States controlled 16,000 square miles, compared to the Vatican's present 108.8 acres. Twenty years later, the diplomatic era which began with Jacob Martin came to an abrupt halt. Because of Protestant criticism of the mission, Congress cut off the funds, and Resident Minister Rufus King * came home from Rome...
...been used successfully by liberal and rightist candidates in the post-war Italian and French elections, although its versions of Western life are dishonest. The major fault of the film is in the directing; the transition between Garbo the Comrade and Garbo the Siren is to abrupt. However, the plot and dialogue are extremely amusing. People should see "Ninotchka" and get all possible laughs from black-bearded Communism of fifteen years...
Insofar as this idea is realized the college and university will no longer cloistered from the surrounding world., There will be no abrupt change when the student becomes a citizen. He will carry with him the poise and self-mastery one who, having drawn to himself all possible rays of light, will be compete to make enlightened decisions...