Word: abruptly
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...following Hardy's meeting with the young Mrs. Arthur Henniker, who made the aging Hardy feel, in his own phrase, "a time-torn man" and came close to rupturing his marriage. The letters are full of mild, passing references to Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize...
Clear air turbulence often occurs where two air masses, moving in opposite directions, grind together. Unlike storm fronts, which present a large, moist target for regular storm-tracking radars, this abrupt change of wind direction, or "wind shear," usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track...
...monstrous discontinuity offends. The abrupt end of the life of a young man who made a young and mighty country feel its age again; who made it feel a youthful strength adequate to undo the heavy burden and let the oppressed go free; the end of such a man now stuns a country grateful for his leadership, his energy, his vision. It stuns a Nation for which he once offered up his life in service, and in whose service he has now given...
...with new President Fernando Belaúnde Terry's assessment of Peru's prospects as presented to Congress last week by his Premier: "The grave problems of our country are caused chiefly by low production levels, unjust distribution of wealth and income, the challenge of difficult and abrupt geography that hinders the development of our resources." It was just as hard to find fault with the aspirations of the program Belaúnde proposed to put things right...
Partially because what has gone before was too farcical to prepare the stage, but also because of its great difficulty, the Don Juan in Hell scene was not a success on opening night. The switch to philosophy was too abrupt, and the actors pounced clumsily on the occasional humorous lines, rather than slyly relishing them. The pages of exposition Shaw wrote on the natural attraction of the sexes and the dream of the superman, an unobtainable man of contemplation, a force without form, became just inanimate talk lacking much meaning. Don Juan receives only token opposition from his companions...