Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts a stop to the singing, the dancing and the music. "Carousel" sets lyrics of childish innocence about carnivals, and ferris wheels, and cotton candy to light-hearted oom-pah-pah music that gradually speeds to a maniacal frenzy, until no singer could possibly keep...
...outplayed on the second half Harvard retaliated, icing its win at 43:12 when Kelly Bryan's shot on goal stopped in the mud about six feet from Brown goalie Priscilla Duffy. The abrupt stop caused a delay in Duffy's reactions and gave Harvard junior Sue St. Louis time to flick the ball up and out of the soup, making the final score...
...when Miller left the Fed in August to become Carter's Treasury chief after the summary axing of Blumenthal, the Fed's monetary policy was in disarray. So strong has been the resulting expansionary momentum that even as investors and financial markets were reeling last week from Volcker's abrupt shift in Fed tactics, the central bank itself glumly announced that money growth for the previous week had been a too robust $2 billion. That was anywhere from two to four times what had been expected...
Larsen was a gracious, inquisitive and gentle man who accommodated himself to Luce's abrupt and sometimes difficult style. Said Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell: "Roy fitted himself to Luce's personality and complemented it totally...
Despite Andrew Young's own earnest pleas that his abrupt departure from Carter's Cabinet not be used to fuel black-Jewish divisions, inevitably it has. Though the two groups, once so closely and warmly allied in the early civil rights struggle, have been drifting apart for years, the spectacle of such open animosity and barbed exchanges as took place last week was dismaying...