Word: abruptly
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...color change in the U.S. city has been abrupt and traumatic. In the past 15 years alone, 5,000,000 Negroes have moved into U.S. inner-cities. From 1950 to 1960, Detroit gained 185,000 Negroes, lost 361,000 whites. St. Louis lost 22% of its entire white population, San Diego 15.4% , Newark 23.7% . Violence on the scale of the Watts and Harlem riots has so far been rare-partly because the heavy concentration of Negroes in Northern cities has given them powerful new political muscle. "If he hadn't been urbanized, the Negro wouldn't have become...
...decision, activist and abrupt, was in the quintessential Johnson style. With no advance warning, the President announced that he would fly to Hawaii for three days of talks with U.S. military commanders and leaders of South Viet Nam's government. The South Vietnamese did not even have time to draft position papers. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, asked when he first heard about it, confessed in some embarrassment: "Very recently...
...Communist demiparadise of palm-topped villages and emerald paddies. But underneath paradise were the ubiquitous mole holes of the Viet Cong -an estimated 3,000 strong in the area. It was, as one U.S. officer put it, "V.C. Fat City-mighty pleasant living for them." That came to an abrupt end early one rainy morning when the first helicopter assault forces of the 1st Air Cav took off from Moore's staging area, called "Dog," and headed for LZ-4, a landing zone nestled between two villages...
...police and armed forces have so far seized nearly $1,000,000 in contraband. Indicative of the crackdown, the price of a pack of smuggled U.S.-made "Blue Seal" cigarettes in Manila has climbed in the past month from the normal 500 to 650, suggesting a distinct and abrupt shortage...
...TIME cover, June 4), heated up the industry 15 months ago by moving into Wheeling Steel, the nation's twelfth largest steel company. In abrupt Simon fashion, he forced five directors off the board, tossed out the chairman-president, charging mismanagement, installed his own chief executive. Wheeling has since rubbed the steel establishment the wrong way by dropping out of industrywide wage negotiations and by giving customers when-they-order guarantees against price increases before delivery...