Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vacation came to an abrupt end when Kelly became feverish and began hallucinating. Despite intensive care at three different hospitals and the best efforts of doctors to figure out what was wrong, she kept getting worse. She had muscle spasms, salivated uncontrollably and suffered bouts of terror. She recoiled from her mother and father and even her own hair. During one lucid moment the little girl told her parents, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be afraid of you, but I can't help it." On July 11, three days before her 12th birthday, she died with doctors...
...walking tempo that gathered speed and supported a whimsical clarinet solo inevitably finished in an abrupt minor cadence to start the fourth movement. (This is Bartok, after all.) Throughout the third and fourth movements, Mehta conducted from soloist to soloist in the winds and brass. He often adjusted the meter of his baton strokes to fit the parts that became a continuous string--a real concerto for an orchestra...
...breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors of nearby Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra besieged Dos Pilas. Says Demarest: "They defeated the king of Dos Pilas and probably dragged him back to Tamarindito to sacrifice him." The reason for the abrupt change in the Maya's battleground behavior, he suspects, was that the ruling elite had grown large enough to produce intense rivalries among its members. Their ferocious competition, which exploded into civil war, may have been what finally triggered the society's breakdown. Similar breakdowns, he believes, happened in other areas...
Arlen and Diane Chase, archaeologists at the University of Central Florida, believe their work at Caracol, in present-day Belize, also shows that escalating warfare was largely responsible for that ancient city's abrupt extinction. Among the evidence they cite: burn marks on buildings, the uncharacteristically unburied body of a six-year-old child lying on the floor of a pyramid, and an increase in war imagery on late monuments and pottery. "Of course we found weapons too," says Arlen...
...Purvis, "not just for one or two projects, but leaned on in almost every facet" of their lives. As deputy in the counsel's office, he was among those who attracted much of the criticism in the early days of the Administration over insufficiently vetting nominees and the abrupt firing of seven members of the travel office. He had become a target of Wall Street Journal editorials about the "legal cronies from Little Rock," but he had laughed it off, calling it, says a colleague, "b.s. stuff." He was the one, Clinton recalled, who bucked up others, always the protector...