Word: abruptness
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...crushing Penn on November 15, any question as to who was the best team in the Ivy League came to an abrupt stop...
Using the demise of imperial Russia as its backdrop, the tale centers around the heroine Anastasia, princess of the Romanov dynasty. During a celebration marking the third centennial anniversary of Romanov rule, the evil sorcerer Rasputin makes an abrupt entrance. He places a curse on the czar's family and with a little bit of fairy dust subsequently incites the Russian revolution (it's a tough pill to swallow). Though her family escapes for Paris (in the all too familiar get-separated-by-fast-moving-train scene), Anastasia is suddenly orphaned...
...women's volleyball season came to an abrupt halt on Saturday when the team was defeated early in the Ivy Tournament and finished in fourth place...
...more than an interested bystander in the CIA campaign to murder Castro. But during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Hersh writes, Kennedy was in fact expecting that Castro would be quickly assassinated by Giancana's men. His fateful decision to abandon the whole thing was the abrupt consequence of his getting the news that the Cuban leader was still alive...
...defense. This week, as jury selection got under way in Sacramento, Calif., for his trial on federal charges of killing two men and seriously wounding two others with package bombs, Kaczynski's defense strategy is in turmoil. The first public sign of trouble was the Harvard graduate's abrupt refusal to be examined by prosecution psychiatrists. But Time has learned that he initially resisted examination by even his own doctors. This stance might be endorsed by the "Unabomber Manifesto," which denounces anyone who attempts to "control human behavior," but it could seriously jeopardize his attorneys' efforts to save his life...