Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Legion. The Government also seems to have the superiority in motor transport, and this is very important militarily. Any greater result than an initial success in a surprised offensive depends on the rapidity with which attacker and defender can rush up reserves, to deepen or close the breach respectively...
Traditionally Queen Farida should have remained in her father's house in the suburbs throughout this ceremony, but "unique" is a young woman of advanced ideas. She not only peeked at her own wedding through a carved grill but afterward posed for her photograph as Queen, a shocking breach of Moslem custom, doubly shocking because Her Majesty not only was photographed but posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore...
Should he accept employment in a training course of this sort, concealing his actual purpose of remaining only for a short time, he would not only render an injustice to his employer but might open a breach between the Placement Office and the employer which would jeopardize the opportunities for other students...
...custom more honored in the breach than the observance...
...Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what...