Word: abruptly
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...known about the aftereffects. The trouble with prostate surgery is that once it's over, you have no more options. I was 74 years old when a very small portion of my prostate was found to be cancerous. I am now 84, but I do not think my abrupt change of lifestyle has been worth the so-called extended years. CLIFTON BLAIR Hillsboro...
...practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered. The mortified Kniffin stood at attention in his underwear, wondering whether his career had come to an abrupt end. Churchill seemed not to notice...
...abrupt policy change followed a familiar pattern for the Bush team: resist, resist, resist--especially if Bill Clinton championed it--then relent when reality intrudes. Brazil, with Latin America's No. 1 economy and the world's ninth largest, was simply too big to fail. The fallout would have rocked Wall Street, where major U.S. banks and businesses have huge exposure--more than $100 billion in loans and investments. While diehard ideologues cried betrayal, the business-first wing of the G.O.P. was delighted by the Administration's about-face. "The bank stocks are all up," said a Republican operative...
...born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. That's where I found "Lewis Boogie," a tune that, in its rollicking rockin' propulsion, fully merits a place next to his two signature hits. It begins as abrupt as wartime reveille: four four-note phrases, each an octave lower than the preceding, on a piano that sounds a little flat in the upper registers. Then JLL races into his vocal. This is a 12-bar blues with a difference: the breaks come not in the first two lines...
...Ginger to foul up. He dares her to match him and, through competition, to be a partner in his dance-romance. She does the same step, but to the left, with smaller arm elevation, and, instead of the beseeching capper, ends with a modest stamp of her right foot - abrupt, dismissive, ever-so-slightly Fred-deflating. Her message to him: she's still just jaunting, not joining in. She won't dance...