Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This abrupt reversal is the "culmination of 18 months of hard training," Baker acknowledged in an interview recently. He also admitted that he had certain problems last year leading a squad of which he was at best a part-time member...
...Harvard Policy Committee is changing its procedure of selecting new members in order to avoid abrupt switches in policy from one year to the next...
...Transition. The changeover is any thing but abrupt. "We have been in transition for about five years," explains Ralph. As part of the transition, the younger Lazarus began taking on more and more of his father's responsibilities, logged 150,000 air miles annually, checking on Federated stores from coast to coast. Last year he formally became chief executive. "Ten years ago," says Ralph, who became president in 1957, "if we disagreed, his decision would pre vail. Now I guess mine would...
Premature Politicking. Ky's abrupt comedown was precipitated by the mercurial Premier himself. Weeks before the official July 19 kickoff for presidential campaigning, Ky had begun electioneering. He appeared on radio and television, stumped the provinces and plastered posters everywhere. When U.S. officials protested his premature politicking, he ordered the posters removed-at least, he told a friend, "in the areas where Americans see them...
...sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic's mask...