Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Russian tests. According to the Public Health Service, which checks Pan Am's planes, they are already ten times as radioactive as before the Russian tests started. The radioactive material does not cling to smooth, clean surfaces. It nestles in places where the air stream makes abrupt turns. Oily spots, which are sometimes unavoidable, catch the hot particles, which also lodge inside jet engines...
...often happens when the press tries to cope with De Gaulle's rhetoric, the true significance of his statements became clear only later. His rolling periods contained two abrupt changes of policy...
...forward in the cockpit, Wilfredo Roman Oquendo, 36, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had made an abrupt transformation from the shy Miami hotel waiter who had meekly bought a ticket to Tampa. Suddenly he was the same snarling Cuban secret policeman he had been in pre-Batista days; suddenly he was fulfilling his role as a hotheaded member of Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement. He pointed a big, Luger-type pistol at Pilot William E. Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert...
Seoul embassy had backed the wrong horse by its abrupt support of the ousted Premier. But in Seoul, General Chang stood before reporters in his combat fatigues to shrug it all off. "There should be no trouble at all as far as U.S. -Korean relations are concerned," said Chang. "Our armed forces in the past have had closer relations with U.S. authorities than any other Korean agency. Therefore I believe the U.S. Government will support us more positively than ever before...
...ability did not make a fool of the orchestra, for Senturia kept the lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance or an uncomfortable "hole," or else a passage competently played would lack lift and fall short of expressiveness...