Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Viet Minh divisions; 2) in the. Red River valley, where a wedge of French armor, backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops, linked up with French paratroops dropped in the enemy rear; 3) in the Hanoi delta, where Giap had touched off a 40,000-man guerrilla attack to brake French momentum...
...Harvard Band, and with it the annual Yale rally, screeched to a halt in the Yard last night, when the Cambridge police put a last minute brake on plans for a parade through the Square. Fearing that the newly-planned route might stir up a disturbance and hold up traffic for an hour or six, as has happened so often in recent years, the police had the Band running around in circles in the Yard until it finally settled down on the Widener steps. Then, there was cheering, singing, and general carousing. The Band played the usuals and added "Where...
...turned out, Boshell didn't work himself out of a job after all. For in his handling of the intricate Pittsburgh Railways reorganization, he so impressed Pittsburgh's potent Mellons that they asked him to take on the vacant presidency of famed old Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Last year, at 49, Boshell did so. Last week, as he began winding up what is now his sideline job at Standard, Boshell was busily expanding Westinghouse Air Brake from its traditional railway equipment into such new fields as electronics, pneumatic tools...
Died. Admiral Keisuke Okada, 84, twice (1927-29, 1932-33) Japan's Navy Minister, onetime (1934-36) Prime Minister of Japan who opposed World War II; tried to brake Japan's runaway war machine; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth of the Frankenstein monster, the machine built to be man's slave, and which enslaved...