Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the fetters are strong, tight and timehonored, Tiemann has gone a long way toward doing just that. "It's as if Nebraska has been shaken awake like some long-slumbering Rip Van Winkle," remarks a Lincoln Star political writer, "and is not too happy at the abrupt and rude awakening...
Many Israelis complain that the slowdown has been too abrupt. Last month 7,000 jobless marched through Tel Aviv shouting "unemployment is no solution" and demanding "bread and work." Even Bank of Israel economists are charging that the country is "in a state of paralysis." Defending mitun, Sapir points out that his policies have cut the growth of consumer spending by more than half, narrowed the balance of payments deficit by 14% to $450 million. "Had we gone on for three more years as before," he insists, "we would have ended up in a catastrophe...
...astounding movement both within the School and throughout Britain. Three major newspapers--the Times, the Observer, and the Sunday Times--had at first reacted to the student protest with hostile editorials calling for a better "moral climate" in the nation's universities. Last week-end they did an abrupt about-face, exposing, for example, the Administration myth that the protest was the work of a small minority of "foreign agitators" as "completely wrong...
Despite his abrupt withdrawal, Meredith intends to stay in the political arena of "the city, the state, and the country," though he disclosed no immediate plans for his political future...
...seen many ups-and-downs and zig-zags on the path to the present thaw in the cold war. But in trudging laboriously along the difficult and dangerous way to equilibrium, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came to learn to accommodate themselves with the status quo rather than seek abrupt changes in the balance of power. They seemed to have realized that accommodation with each other is to their common interest...