Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impart a royal flavor was Princess Margaret, a tear glistening in her eye as the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...
...suspicion. It observes, for the most part without comment, a few uneventful scenes in which A .... the wife, and Franck, her presumed lover (and the eye itself), have drinks, dinner, coffee, and discuss a trip A ... and Franck are to take to town. At first the eye's abrupt switching from people to objects-a crushed centipede on the wall, the view out the window-seems arbitrary...
...that, the President's abrupt cancellation filled the Tribune's editors with what sounded very much like dismay. "We are distressed," it editorialized, after hearing the news. "We would hope that the President has not canceled because of hard reporting by our greatly respected staff or because of the critical nature of our editorial page . . . We hope the President will instruct his assistants to renew the White House subscriptions. And soon." If not, added the Trib later, it would limp along with its other Washington subscribers-notably the U.S. Information Agency (94 copies), the State Department (20), Secretary...
...Japanese viewer, The Hidden Fortress must have a very archaic flavor, since Kurosawa has grafted onto it the gruff, stylized vocal tones and, sometimes the abrupt, hyperdramatic gestures of Kabuki. When the two peasants climb mountains in a completely prone position, they recall the balletic exaggeration of Japan's ancestral theatre, as do the shrieks that serve the Princess for "normal" speech. Indeed, she must remain silent throughout the journey because her voice would "reveal her identity...
...steelmen agreed that higher prices were desirable, but many figured that slower, spaced-out boosts would have been more realistic. And many had grave doubts as to the economic feasibility of Big Steel's abrupt, across-the-board raise...