Word: brake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race...
...This means they categorically opposed extensions of government operation, defend "states' rights," and refuse to send beyond the limits of the old Congressional game, which assumes both that political roles are neatly divided between the President and Congress, and that the position of Congress is inevitably that of a brake on a too-zealous executive. (The new House Majority Leader, Repi. John McCormack, is a man dedicated to this game; it produced...
...down past pelvis-hugging slacks to cowboy-booted toes, joined Husband Eddie Fisher, 33, on a shopping expedition in Rome. Even in this relatively chaste garb, Liz proved capable of disrupting traffic, had to leap from the path of a gaping motorist who forgot for a moment where his brake...
...Maudling, 44, who has little knowledge of the government's complex colonial problems, which have become a major source of disaffection within the Conservative Party. By installing a new man in the Colonial Office, Macmillan effectively forestalled criticism at the party conference; but the move will not easily brake the African colonies' full-throttled advance to independence...
...August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from 26? to 24? per Ib. With so much overcapacity, manufacturers as yet felt no compulsion to expand vigorously, consequently were borrowing at a slower rate than bankers had hoped they would...