Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined to stop aid to Greek guerrillas from Greece's northern neighbors, but it would work as long as possible within the U.N. framework. Last week the first step was taken. Greece, charging that there had been a breach of peace, invoked Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. Under that chapter the Security Council can apply economic or military sanctions against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria if they continue to support armed aggression against Greece. If the international brigade moves into Greece, and Russia vetoes action under Chapter VII, the U.S. is prepared to take step two: invoke Article...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...
...preparation for suicide ("a provocation to commit suicide with professional instruments," said the barbers); 2) absentmindedly tying a restaurant napkin around Li's neck, barber-chair fashion; and above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing the film, go on strike...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...embattled tribes had been turning out homemade wooden rifles, six feet long. In a divided India, where 38 million Moslems are still within the borders of Hindu India, 18 million Hindus and two million Sikhs within Pakistan, few supposed that political deals in Delhi could really repair the breach between religious communities...