Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech. It takes advantage of the fact that speech is full of extremely short 'silences' or pauses, like the usually unnoticed but perceptible pause between the 'S' and "T" in the word 'Stay.' These pauses occur much me frequently in speech, and when they occur, they are much more abrupt then in music...
...Chicago's Keystone cops skittered busily around town trying to run down a lead to the killers. But wherever they looked for big shots in The Outfit who might be able to answer a few polite questions, the cops found nobody home-the boys were all on abrupt vacations. Running away to hide was something that rarely happened in Big Al Capone's day. But Al, as everyone knew, was not worried by a lot of legitimate investments to protect...
Blockers and changing defensive linemen are restrained by two other rule changes. New, blockers are not allowed to block opponents above the shoulders. Injuries caused by abrupt contact between elbows and faces helped to hasten the switch...
Everybody seemed to be remembering 1942. It was the period when new automobiles suddenly disappeared and a rubber tire brought $30 to $40, no questions asked. In that year ice cream was limited to ten flavors, and there was an abrupt end to such goods as metal hair curlers, refrigerators, radios and beer in cans. In Washington, the Wafflebottom Club was founded-for businessmen who spent long hours warming cane-bottom chairs in the anterooms of Government agencies. The drinking public discovered to its horror that every blast of a 16-in. gun consumed 60 precious gallons of alcohol...
...teeming streets of Saigon are magically emptied by the abrupt rain squalls. At one minute the Rue Catinat,* the city's main street, is 'busy as usual. Stores named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...