Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting the long, polished table. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was expecting Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin and ten of his aides for lunch. There would be good food, good wines, and, hopefully, over the coffee and cigars, some quiet, profitable talk. But suddenly a Soviet courier appeared with a scribbled, abrupt message. The lunch was off, apologized Zorin, due to the press of unexpected business...
...proprietor of what he liked to claim was the world's largest individually owned construction company, Hayes had contracted to build some $60 million in housing projects at U.S. military bases. Last spring, when some of his subcontractors began to complain about money owed them. Hayes called an abrupt halt to all the work on projects yet uncompleted (TIME, June 6). On the sites, virtually nothing has happened since. Not only are there unfinished houses, but huge piles of lumber and other building materials are being ruined by the winter weather...
...months ago King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva brusquely jailed Prime Minister B. P. Koirala, thus bringing an abrupt end to the first government ever to be elected democratically in Nepal. Then, the King explained ingeniously that he had acted because the Koirala government was "killing the people's democratic aspirations." Last week, talking to a TIME correspondent in Katmandu, the King gave a more candid reason: "The Koirala government was always trying to put me in an awkward position . . . It preached that the King was standing in the way of reform...
...Europeans sank lower. There were few purchasers for anything that could not be easily carried. Sales of autos were down as much as 90%. A tractor firm, which a year ago was selling ten machines daily, sold only eight in an entire month. Algiers' shopkeepers saw the abrupt end of a six-year business boom, grumbled that this month was "the worst January we've ever had." Apartments stand empty and houses are offered for sale at what realtors described as "almost ridiculously low prices." The European rightists are further dismayed by the inauguration of President John Kennedy...
...soon changed his mind. He became a backer of Governor-to-be Edmund ("Pat") Brown, earned an appointment to the finance committee of the Democratic State Central Committee, helped form Democratic Associates, a committee of conservative Democrats who sponsor business-minded candidates for office. Day is articulate and abrupt, an effortlessly efficient manager. No mossback, Day manages to preserve the respect (if not the adoration) of both right and left in California's mixed-up politics...