Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven's history, got stranded on a lonely ledge trying to climb the 300 feet cliff of East Rock, which overlooks the city. Their frenzied cries brought rope-wielding firemen who hauled them to the top, but waiting policemen subdued their premature spring fever by booking them on breach of peace charges. The pair were named as Donald Renkert and Peter Mensh...
...quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John Rankin cried, self-righteously: "Atrocious...
...will be slighted when it comes to Christmas dinner, she assured. Last year, not a single girl had to eat in a restaurant, for Radcliffe alumnae in the Boston area filled the breach...
Emily Post, 75, chided a reporter for a breach of etiquette in asking when she was born (a date she has not given to Who's Who in America). "Where is this going to be printed?" she added. "It's for our files," replied the reporter. "Oh, an obituary. Well," ruled Mrs. Post, "if they're not going to print it until I'm dead, I don't care...
...should have liked to see Oliver Twist; and I bitterly resent it that pressure groups should have successfully committed a breach of the democratic process in depriving me and many millions of others of our right to see that film...