Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deane Edwards, president of the 2,000-member Hymn Society of America, argues that "hymnody must be kept abreast of the life of the church.'' But in replacing Victorian flotsam, hymnal makers have cautiously steered away from abrupt modernization, or harmonies more discordant than Brahms's. Instead, they have subtly blended, like the bride's trousseau, something old, something borrowed, something...
...Nassau, however, Britian showed that she was not European in this sense at all. Despite the abrupt abandonment of the Skybolt Program, which meant the end of at least semi-independence for the British, Macmillan once again leased the destiny of his country to the United States...
Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...
...harsh reality of vanished might. Their feeling of shock today is all the greater because it has been so long delayed. As if by some malevolent design, a whole series of frustrations and failures has beset Britannia in a few short months, deepening the nation's angst. The abrupt U.S. cancellation of the Skybolt missile rudely exposed the fact that Britain's "independent" nuclear deterrent is in fact almost wholly dependent on Washington. There was a time when U.S. Presidents sought Britain's counsel-and even approval-before taking any major initiative in world affairs...
...jumping is something like walking on water-the first step is the hardest. The view from the top is discouraging: the ice-slick starting slope falls away at an abrupt 35° for take-off speeds up to 60 m.p.h.. and the ambulance at the end of the landing run seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with panic...