Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that he had banned the Maestro from the premises, they offered their resignations. In Mexico City, Siqueiros roared that Campanella was a "gangster" whose "frauds . . . are now a criminal matter." Diego Rivera and 40-odd other topflight Mexican painters got off a fire-breathing manifesto charging Campanella with breach of contract, and declared a boycott against the school...
...picks-through the windows and tried to break in the doors. Chicago police were just barely able to hold them in check and prevent a full-scale battle of the streets. Terminiello was arrested under a Chicago ordinance which declares it unlawful to create a "diversion tending to a breach of the peace...
...Invite Dispute. It did so in a peculiar fashion. The majority did not pass on the validity of the Chicago ordinance; it objected instead to the way the trial judge had construed the ordinance in his instructions to the jury. He had defined "breach of the peace" to mean misbehavior which "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates disturbances...
...Into the breach stepped Douglas Kennedy, who sports the colors of the New York Herald Tribune flotilla...
...nine-day period of national mourning was declared, Filipino planes and government troops combed the mountains in search of the slayers. From his hideout, Huk Leader Luis Taruc issued a statement which would scarcely comfort or reassure the bereaved islanders. If, he said, his own investigation revealed "a breach of Hukbalahap iron discipline," punishment of the guilty party would be carried out swiftly...