Word: abruptly
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...abrupt departure of Wolcowitz, who had previously said he intended to see the review through to the end, is the latest in a series of administrative turnovers...
After the abrupt resignation of coach Scott Russell, the Harvard men’s water polo team was praying for fresh blood to revitalize the slumping program. Its prayers have been answered with Erik Farrar, named Coach of the Year once by the Eastern Water Polo Associate and twice by the Collegiate Water Polo Association
...front of a driftwood composition, it was relaxing and even fun to do two-minute sketches in a variety of materials. I got a bit ahead of myself early on, when I decided that I, too, could imitiate Jackson Pollock—an episode which came to an abrupt halt when my ink splattered not into a beautiful pattern on my paper but rather into a less desirable blob on the shirt of the budding artist standing next to me. I also learned that raspberries are deceptively complicated structures, and I would do my artistic talents too great a compliment...
...costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis. In 1939, she and her second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s, and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying in Mexico in 1980. It's said her last wish was to have her ashes...
After the abrupt consolidation of the deanship a year ago, the administrative split is back...