Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With NASA's abrupt withdrawal, development of the Triangle was also sidetracked. Thompson says that the Authority's initial reaction to the NASA departure was to pursue job-intensive development for the remainder of the Quadrangle, but that consultants advised the CRA to seek middle and upper income housing for the site...
Mitchell's fall from grace has been abrupt and painful. Always outwardly serene but reflecting an inner toughness, he seemed oblivious to any kind of criticism. He brushed aside complaints by civil libertarians that many of his measures-including the mass May Day arrests of antiwar protesters in Washington in 1971-were part of a trend toward repression by the Government. Mitchell accurately enough accused the protesters of "bullying people, shouting down those who disagreed with them," but he also venomously compared them with "Hitler's Brownshirts." He seemed unflustered when the U.S. Supreme Court last June declared...
...Columbia Lions have dominated the Ivy League tennis scene for several years now, but their hegemony will come to an abrupt end today at the Palmer Dixon Courts if the Crimson netmen and coach Jack Barnaby have their...
...reporting on Libya fell to Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who as head of the Beirut bureau from 1964-1968 and again in 1969-1970 had already visited the country several times. On this trip, despite the abrupt and unexplained cancellation of his visa, he was able to spend time in Tripoli and Benghazi before flying to Beirut with a fresh impression of Gaddafi's domain. "It's never been easy covering the Arab Middle East," Griggs says. "But by and large the Arabs are a friendly and charming people who don't blame you personally...
...show how closely the early jazz instrumental sound modelled the voice of the jazz singer. The twists of melody and even the harmony are less important to the music than the setting of the one instrumental tone against another, while the intense rhythm carries the song forward to its abrupt...