Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians and his growing realization of the difficulties he faced. He recalled with what good will he had gone to Potsdam, prepared to offer help for reconstruction of Russia as well as the rest of the world; he found that all Stalin wanted to talk about was the abrupt end of lend-lease...
...coming of war brought an abrupt end to such pleasures, and the Hillman and its slim, spirited driver were kept busy dispatching Attlee on his wartime duties. Then came peace, and in 1945 Violet Attlee took the wheel of the Hillman to drive her husband over the length and breadth of Britain as he campaigned. One day soon after the election, Violet drove the new Prime Minister to Buckingham Palace to kiss King George's hand...
When the 25-minute work jolted to an abrupt stop, the audience gave Sessions a polite hand. The critics bit their tongues and tensed their cheeks. The Herald Tribune's Francis D. Perkins cautiously admired the scoring as "remarkable in its hues and timbres," but warned his readers that "the harmonic idiom ... is of the type sometimes described as advanced." Wrote the New York Times's Olin Downes: "For us it is a painfully studied and artificial piece of writing [but] this may be a mistaken estimate of the work...