Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From NATO's viewpoint, De Gaulle could hardly be considered the great European unifier. If anything, he was the grand Charley horse in the Western alliance. What preoccupied last week's Brussels conference, in fact, was his abrupt decision to separate French troops from NATO control and expel NATO troops from France. He had even given SHAPE its eviction notice...
First indication was the abrupt disappearance of his name from the Chronicle masthead, where he has been listed as president and publisher since January. Though all the principals involved immediately issued a torrent of stony silence-neither the Chronicle nor even the rival Post covered the story-the facts behind Mecom's canceled purchase murkily began to emerge...
...million, or 9% better than during the same period last year. Then Ford Chairman Henry Ford II rose and sent the winds gusting in the other direction. Blaming most of the auto industry's troubles on the safety squabble ("I have no other way to explain this abrupt drop"), Ford said that sales had fallen off by about 5% during April, and were down about 15% during the first ten days of May. This, said Ford, projecting his figures, meant that the company would fall considerably short in 1966 of the alltime-high marks in 1965 of $11.5 billion...
Director Varda exempts exempts François both from praise and condemnation. She merely accepts his behavior as an inexorable fact of life, and dramatizes it bewitchingly in unforced New Cinema style, using abrupt cuts and soft focus to suggest the spontaneous electricity generated by lovers, repeating one action several times to underscore the emotional impact of a scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman...
...general, Reston employs an easy-going, folksy approach. But he can also be abrupt; one of his favorite tricks is calling an official, asking a question, and then waiting, without saying anything else. One Times man says he will do "almost anything" to get information...