Word: abruptly
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...hiccup is an involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that causes an abrupt intake of breath. An instant later, and also involuntarily, the opening in the larnyx (the glottis) closes and cuts off the flow of air, thus creating the audible hic. To most persons, it is merely annoying. But if it continues for days, it can be seriously weakening, as it was in 1954 for Pope Pius XII. More common and at least as worrisome is the effect on patients undergoing surgery, especially on the torso. The spasms complicate the surgeon's delicate maneuvers; during postoperative recovery, they...
Soaring Appetite. Abrupt as it was, the embargo was only the latest in a series of Treasury moves to cope with the soaring world appetite for silver. Because of increasing sales of sterling silverware and photographic film (in which silver halides are the light-sensitive ingredient) plus expanding use in electronics and aerospace, the demand for industrial silver jumped 91% (to 150 million oz.) last year in the U.S. Altogether, the free world consumed 464 million oz. of silver last year while mining less than half that amount. In 1963, to help balance supply and demand, the Government stopped issuing...
Three out of four American families carry automobile insurance, and frustration over accident claims is only one of their woes. There are also protests against big premium increases, abrupt policy cancellations and lax state regulation of fly-by-night companies. The $9 billion-a-year auto insurance business is in such parlous shape that James J. Meyers, vice president for claims of the Crum & Forster insurance group, says the whole works may well become "a dying industry unless we reappraise our practices...
Coach Norm Shepard took no chances and called in Peters, who was expected to throw agaist Army Saturday. The strong righthander, whose speed presented an abrupt switch from McCandlish's baffling slow stuff, got the second out with three quick strikes...
...last vestige from the old "religious" days of Reading Dynamics which has since been altered is the "Breakthrough," which denotes the abrupt attainment of dynamic reading. Kilgo desrcibes his Breakthrough in an unmistakably religious manner, "It was as if I was in a trance. My vision blurred and suddenly I could see the entire page in one glance. It was induced by rhythmic repetition over the same page many times." The term has been dropped, in favor of a more gradual description of success, because it was not conducive to profit making. "We have been instructed not to talk about...