Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base of material wealth, and may need strong direction. The United States has established such a base and is now engaged in restructuring her society along more equitable lines, a process that would seem to involve organic change with a priority on co-operation, rather than change induced by abrupt pushes by a strong leader...
...abrupt about-face, CIGA plans to reach for the equally profitable middle-price, room-number trade. In partnership with Alitalia and an Italian holding company, it is getting ready to build a chain of 800-bed modern "Aerhotels." "They will have all the American internal fittings," says Managing Director Giorgio Campione, "including ice water and paper-wrapped glasses." The first two Aerhotels are to be opened in Milan and Rome...
...consume most of his time. In addition to coping with all the news that's fit to print, he has a lot of personnel problems to sort out-the running status struggle, for instance, between the New York office and the Washington bureau that culminated in the abrupt appointment of James Greenfield as Washington bureau chief last February and his equally abrupt dismissal when Washington, led by Reston, protested. "I've had a wonderful life out of this paper for 29 years," says Reston. "I've been asked to do the most important news...
...politicians and the pundits, the most confused and contused victims of this year's roller-coaster politics are the writers and publishers of campaign books. Warehouses are crammed with tons of tomes outdated by events. Writers, editors and printers are scrambling to keep pace with the mercurial exits, abrupt entrances and coy waitings-in-wings of the 1968 candidates. Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of Cowles newspapers saw his George Romney: Mormon in Politics rolling off the presses just as the Michigander's presidential hopes were being buried in New Hampshire. Said Mollenhoff: "Now I know how it felt...
...murders him in space, thus justifying the prior duplication by undercutting it with a terrifyingly different conclusion. Throughout 2001, Kubrick suggests a constantly shifting balance between man and his tools, a dimension which largely vanishes from this particular scene in cutting the first half and making the murder more abrupt dramatically than any other single action in the film...