Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after it had marched up the hill to spear the President's request for authorization of a long-term foreign-aid development fund, the House Foreign Affairs Committee did an abrupt about-face last week, marched back down again to approve the bill...
Make It Ugly. Then, abrupt as a blow, came Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, a painting done in 1907 depicting five dramatic salmon-pink nudes, their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman...
...first half of the lacrosse game at Hanover Saturday, the varsity team played the best lacrosse of its season. But 11 Dartmouth goals in the second half put an abrupt end to Crimson hopes for an upset and converted a close match into a 15 to 3 rout...
...varsity tennis team will undergo an abrupt metamorphosis today as it makes the unfortunate transition from the role of heavy favorite, which it has occupied for the last 10 matches, to that of definite underdog, when it faces Presbyterian College on the Soldiers Field Courts...
...work these men do is unique, too. The fragments brought to them by the Bedouins make a strange kind of shadow land. Some carry familiar Biblical names, or snatches of familiar Old Testament language; others are single words or phrases, hanging like abrupt cries in the air of history. All are tackled by the scholars...