Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion House Calls gets a fast comic beat going, only to have its plot bring the laughs to an abrupt halt. The screenwriters have not found a way to integrate their hero's hospital shenanigans with the love story, and they build their narrative around the kind of forced farcical coincidences that went out of style with I Love Lucy. Howard Zieff, the talented director of Slither and Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming...
...Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard sat in front. An Alfa Romeo, carrying three plainclothes policemen, followed closely behind. About half a mile from Moro's home, a white Fiat station wagon came to an abrupt halt at a corner stop sign, forcing Moro's driver to brake sharply. The police escort car slammed into the rear of Moro's vehicle. Then two masked men jumped out of the white Fiat, opening fire on Moro's driver and bodyguard, killing them where they...
...immediate problem is that there are just too many dollars in foreign hands. Last year the U.S. spent an estimated $19.5 billion more than it received in all "current account" transactions (trade in goods and services, tourist outlays, weapons exports) with foreigners, an abrupt turnaround from two years earlier, when the U.S. racked up a towering $11.6 billion surplus, caused in part by a drop in imports during the recession. The massive swing back into deficit, which began early in 1976 and has accelerated ever since, has added to a pile of dollars owned outside the U.S. that is estimated...
...predicted a center-right win-by a narrow margin. But the left still led the center-right parties by about 50% to 46% in the latest polls, and there were plainly still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when French customs officials nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems in his luggage. The baubles, Barrière explained...
After taking off from Logan airport Thursday morning, the pilot of Allegheny Flight 351 relived his fantasies of becoming an ace fighter pilot, as he took the large jet through swoops and abrupt halts and tried to reach a height of 22,000 feet...