Word: abruptly
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...Boston Globe reports that former Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann's abrupt resignation last fall was prompted by discovery of pornographic material on his University-owned computer. Thiemann remains a tenured professor but is on sabbatical until...
...fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved, at least temporarily, by his governor's abrupt change of heart. Thursday afternoon, hours before the scheduled lethal injection, George W. Bush sanctioned a 30-day stay of execution for McGinn...
Twelve miles later, I prevailed. A 12-mile walk affords a short, slow man plenty of time to think. During my hours of contemplation, I decided that the cause of my "concussion" was the abrupt shift from time spent almost entirely in the long view (lakes, ocean, mountains, cliffs, fields and bogs) to time spent almost entirely in the short view (e-mail, web, newspapers, magazines, television and videos). Only the middle ground of city streets could carry me safely from one extreme perspective to the other...
...result of its current losing streak, the Crimson has officially been eliminated from the playoffs, and seen its streak of three consecutive Ivy League championships come to an abrupt...
...except his own. Born in 1943 in Ceylon (which changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972) and a longtime Canadian resident and citizen, Ondaatje enjoyed a modest following as a poet, filmmaker and educator. But when his novel appeared in 1992, all that comfortable obscurity came to an abrupt halt. The English Patient went on to win Britain's prestigious and commercially influential Booker Prize and was then turned into a 1996 Academy Award-winning film. A lot of people--those who loved the novel and/or film and those who professed bafflement at all the fuss--began waiting...