Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe the abrupt resignation of Pentagonite Gavin should be likened to a latter-day Mutiny on the Bounty. Suffice to say that "Slim Jim" must be pretty egocentric if he quits because the other cogs in the military wheel won't operate on the suggestions he made. What a terrific chumpnik! JEFF SPRUNG La Mesa, Calif...
Little attempt is made to delineate or even distinguish characters. One figure seems to be the center of attention and then disappears. The rather sketchy sub-titles don't communicate the relationship between characters as well as the dialogue undoubtedly does. The transition between scenes seems ridiculously careless and abrupt, but this may be due to failures in this particular print and not general ineptness on the part of the Russian film-makers...
...cause of Thorneycroft's abrupt departure from the Cabinet was his insistence that government expenditures must be maintained at exactly the same level as last year's. But in the new estimates, expenditures came out almost ?50 million ($140,000,000) higher. This was not because of new extravagances but because standard welfare-state services would cost more. To cut the last ?50 million would mean cutting into such programs as free milk for children and expectant mothers, reducing the family allowances that pay parents $1.12 a week for their second child, $1.40 for each subsequent child...
EXPENDITURES. McElroy's predecessor, Charlie Wilson, let costs get so far out of hand that he was forced to call an abrupt halt to military procurement before the end of fiscal 1957. He also had to reduce procurement programs for 1958 to an extent that caused havoc in the airframe industry. McElroy will probably have about $2 billion more than Wilson to spend, will have that much bigger a problem in trying to control the spending...
...Korean War caused an abrupt change and enormous complication in our foreign aid program, he stated. From economic aid to the temporarily destroyed nations of Europe, we changed to military and economic aid for the underdeveloped nations of Asia...