Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrage of firings and hirings such as the nation had not seen before, with the exception?in very different circumstances?of the Saturday Night Massacre by the desperate Nixon Administration in 1973 (see following story). For Ford, the moves backfired?at least initially. To many Americans, his actions seemed abrupt, not to say panicky. Instead of strength and certainty, he conveyed the impression that he was bumbling and dominated by political motives...
President Ford's abrupt decision to rejuggle his Administration thrust four men into top jobs that may well lead them to even bigger jumps in the future. The four...
HARVARD-BROWN--If there is any justice in this world, then Harvard fans have little to worry about. Unfortunately, as my Economics section man keeps saying, things don't always work out the way they should. The season may very well come to an abrupt end today, but a sentimental vote is in order. Harvard 19, Brown 17. The Sports Cube Predicts... Harvard-Brown Dartmouth-Cornell Penn-Columbia Yale-Princeton Last week's record Season's record Season Pct. Mike Savit Brown 22-20 Dartmouth 31-18 Columbia 29-22 Yale 23-17 4-0 27-7 .794 Bill Stedman...
...precedent-shattering interlude has been removed. Still remaining is a sequence in which a character called Captain Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) strips in front of some eight-year-old boys and starts to unzip the fly of one wondering youngster. Presumably this will bring the boys' sexuality to abrupt flower and turn them into lusty, life-embracing creatures...
...favor scrapping the controls and letting a free market set the price. Arizona Republican Paul Fannin last week offered an Administration-backed proposal for immediate decontrol; it lost, 57 to 31. Most Democrats, and politicians from consuming states, insist on maintaining some controls to protect gas users against too-abrupt price boosts...