Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability of the soloist, Miss Ruth Posselt. The allegro molto seemed to lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with a weak background on the strings. Several abrupt pauses in the final movement punctuated the variations on the G-minor theme. Noel Coward's description of Dukelsky's operetta "Yvonne" as "Yvonne the Terrible" might well be extended to include this concerto...
...sudden arrival of a lonely spouse returning to the side of Navy Supply School student Marlin Withrow has caused an abrupt and complete curtailment in the social activity of said student...
...Assistant Attorney General had long since reached a dead end. First capital, then labor had been irritated by his monolithic determination to enforce the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Two years ago Arnold's brisk roundup of labor unions for trade-restraining practices was brought to an abrupt halt. The Supreme Court virtually forbade anti-trust prosecution of organized labor...
Technically speaking, the Crimson basketball team ended a three game losing streak Saturday night with its 43 to 38 triumph over Boston University at the Indoor Athletic Building. Strictly speaking, Coach Earl Brown's men are still a long way from their pre-Christmas form, and only an abrupt about-face can lift their noses out of the Ivy League cellar...
...individual conference and those few tutors who are left are rapidly disappearing into war work or the armed forces themselves. The second reason, paradoxically enough, is more directly bound up with the students' welfare. If an undergraduate has not attended a course regularly up to the time of his abrupt departure for the Army or Navy, his cumulative grade would be so poor that he could not be given final credit for the course...