Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathizing with the malcontents, but then, there is his Hippocratic oath. What should he do? Moreover, what should he do about Nurse Vaughan? Nothing works out right for Dr. Varga. He loses both the girl and the patient, and his own brief career in Port Aarif comes to an abrupt end when the governor's bodyguards take after him with silver daggers...
...came a handful of air-power apostles, including a less than voluble Lieut. General Curtis E. LeMay. LeMay's main and somewhat irrelevant point was that the major U.S. blow should be "by strategic bombing." Would he vote for the Wherry resolution? "I don't know," said abrupt Curt LeMay, whose political interests are no wider than the flight deck...
...abrupt reversal of form, proposed a reorganization of the RFC along the lines recommended by the Fulbright report (which he had called "asinine" only a few days before). The new plan would establish: 1) an independent RFC (not in the Commerce Department, as Truman had originally proposed), 2) a single RFC administrator replacing the present five-man board, 3) a statutory board of review-all urged by Fulbright...
...black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight and not always readable reporting, and its abrupt end smells of quick cutting work on the printer's stone. This reviewer found the rest of the poetry surpassing understanding or enjoyment. But there is a lot of good reading in the new Advocate...
...Abrupt Hike. For many years, Iran's royalties from Anglo-Iranian made up at least one-sixth to one-fifth of the government's annual revenues. But as the company's prosperity grew, so did Iran's insistence that it get a larger slice of the profits. Late in 1932, the Iranian government tore up the original agreement and forced Anglo-Iranian to hike royalties and hitch them to the size of the stockholders' dividends. In return, it extended the concession...