Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilcox will need all the understanding and goodwill he can generate in the coming months. Following Jones's abrupt announcement last Spring that the Staff Teaching Scholarship (STS) program for teaching fellows was being dropped, irate graduate students formed a militant union that pressed demands backed by a threat to strike. (See story below...
...financial crisis deepened, the Bok administration took drastic measures to put the Press back on its feet. Carroll's abrupt dismissal, although a surprise to the director himself, came after long deliberations between Bok, Hall, and the Board of Directors. When the decision was made to ask Carroll for his resignation, however, Carroll refused to resign, and Bok dismissed...
...financial crisis deepened, the Bok administration took drastic measures to put the Press back on its feet. Carroll's abrupt dismissal, although a surprise to the director himself came after long deliberations between Bok, Hall, and the Board of Directors. When the decision was made to ask Carroll for his resignation, however, Carroll refused to resign, and Bok dismissed...
...remembered, however, for Peter O'Toole's Jack, a performance of such intensity that it may trouble sleep as surely as it will haunt memory. All actors can play insanity; few play it well. O'Toole begins where other actors stop, with the unfocused gaze, the abrupt bursts of frenzied high spirits and precipitous depressions. Funny, disturbing, finally devastating, O'Toole finds his way into the workings of madness, revealing the anger and consuming anguish at the source. Jay Cocks
That hardly seemed likely; the North Vietnamese are well aware of the American political situation and what they could expect from a McGovern Administration. The episode, with its abrupt denial and then clarification, did, however, contribute somewhat to McGovern's own credibility problem, a general impression that his staff work remains strangely uncoordinated...