Word: abruptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for this abrupt abandonment of the long-skirted mode: On the second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen...
...Stalin acts without warning. At his sudden fiat, Trotsky (a Communist with a greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months or two years later the Dictator may change his mind. As in the case of the anti-Religion campaign, he may modify...
...been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion ? that second in which the crowd took its breath to let out the abrupt blurred noise that meant the Derby had started...
...CRIMSON's "swing to the right," first at the appearance of the protest signed by 51 alumni, and now, with the formulation of the "Harvard Square Deal Association," has quite possibly been misinterpreted. Obviously, to accept the University's miserliness and technical evasions would be an abrupt about-face from its previous attitude. Editorially, the CRIMSON has declared itself out of sympathy with the attempt, first of the Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard...
...prisoners, who are paid the usual rates for jobs accomplished. In America indolence is the rule in many prisons and the cause of much disorder, owing to trade union, jealousy of free prison labor. But work under normal wages would obviate this objection as well as making less abrupt the prisoner's release from penitentiary routine. As the prisoner improves under considerate and careful treatment, he is given more and more freedom, allowed to work under supervision in neighboring factories, live in rooms with curtains but not bars, and finally paroled with the money he has saved under close police...