Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...
...numerous that seldom had so much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement by abdicating. But the scorn burned warmest in the stories that dealt with the likelihood that those great pacifists, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, had united in the drive for Peace...
...heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course. The Crimson regrets that it was carried away by its own strong desire for an explanation of a new policy's woefully abrupt application and led to attribute reasons other than his own for Professor Burbank's resignation...
...which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed at the abrupt departure of many of Harvard's outstanding teachers. We dislike being deprived of brilliant lecturers and stimulating tutors. We resent the consequent impairment of educational standards. We feel, to put it bluntly, that we are being cheated." In developing this theme, Mr. Ross indulges in little special pleading...
...scarcely knew what to make of it; political leaders were reluctant to tell the people that the treaty's abrogation might well foreshadow an economic blockade. Tatsuo Kawai, the fastidious, chubby-faced Foreign Office spokesman who gives the foreign press interviews thrice weekly, called the U.S. action "unbelievably abrupt," admitted that it was "highly susceptible of being interpreted as having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude a new treaty based on Japan's "new order in East Asia." Later, it was magnanimously said that the U.S. would not, after...