Word: abruptly
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...World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran editor Wilbur Garrett left staffers -- and readers -- wondering where the magazine might be headed next...
...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
Centuries from now, when anthropologists are examining the Gorbachev era, they will be astounded by the abrupt changes in the forms of political life that occurred during the punctuated evolution of the period. Mute and spineless holdovers from pre-glasnost days slithered into obscurity and were replaced by frothing creatures distinguished by wide-open mouths and fists thrust upward. Two new autobiographies, published this month in vivid counterpoint, provide a revealing glimpse of this great Soviet transition...
...final plunge of the most powerful and dreaded firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties came with astonishing speed. Like the abrupt fall of the Berlin Wall thousands of miles away, the collapse suddenly confirmed what everyone in the financial world could already feel in the wind: a new era had arrived. After a desperate three-day search for cash in which it was spurned by its bankers, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group filed bankruptcy papers an hour before midnight last Tuesday...
Lloyd's superior acting abilities are confirmed in the second act. When his wife triumphs, he must abandon the veneer of harsh soldier and become a wimpering child. While within the play the transformation is abrupt and slightly unconvincing, Lloyd manages to maintain as much credibility playing an emotional ragdoll as he does portraying the assertive officer. Although The Captain's final speech is given within the confines of a straitjacket, Lloyd transcends these physical limitations and creates the play's most haunting moment...