Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William's whole life fell apart after the trial. Lady Wilde stood by him, but he lost interest in his profession, "became dirtier, uglier, more abrupt" as time went on. He still saw occasional patients: once, unable to find an eye dropper when he was ready to put some lotion in a child's eye, he angrily grabbed a pen from his desk, flicked the lotion in, permanently scarring the eyeball. Dr. Wilson notes that his decline was probably hastened by physical causes as well as mental anguish. It was a steady decline; the end came...
With industry already resigned to wage increases of upwards of 10%, the addition of a few percent seemed hardly likely to plunge the country into drastic inflation. The real problem of preventing inflation was the problem of increasing production and any price change not too abrupt was hardly likely to interfere with the process. Avoiding strikes would help the process...
There was little violence; it was more like a Union Square demonstration. But the noise spread around the world. Fueled on homesickness and low morale, the ruckus was touched off by the Army's abrupt announcement that it would be some time before a lot of U.S. soldiers got home, because many would have to carry on for a while as occupation troops...
With this episode, in a break as abrupt and final as that of Britain from peace to war, Novelist Waugh begins the more obviously earnest part of his book. "My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime. These memories, which are my life-for we possess nothing certainly except the past-were always with me. . . . These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when...
...abrupt collapse of Argentina's week-old, fumbling interim government came as a surprise to headline readers and chancelleries alike. What manner of country was Argentina, where a ruling clique and a single city, Buenos Aires, seemed to decide a great nation's political destinies? And what of that democratic policy, laudable in aim, by which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden had seemed to triumph in Perón's overthrow? The phenomenon of the Strong Man and his army, his labor unions and his determined bands of street fighters, needed clarification...