Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still searching last week for some way to end the conflict. Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte was named as a mediator between Jews and Arabs. The U.S. pressed for a Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce...
Except for a brief breakdown when Radio Radcliffe stepped into the breach, the Network filled local pipes with a programming that ranged from Beethoven through Gilbert and Sullivan to an array of modern composers...
...mound staff, will probably face the visitors. Clay stopped New Hampshire with four hits on Wednesday and four and five-hit jobs have been the rule rather than the exception for Clay all season. Should Clay falter. Harper will probably throw Roger Davis, another consistently dependable hurler into the breach...
...Trial by Jury," which came as a curtain-raiser, is a tidy little musical farce about a breach-of-promise trial. The company used what actors they had left over from the excellent cast of "The Pirates," and produced it with a certain competent lightness. Enough stage business was crammed into the operetta's twenty-five minutes to fill a three-hour play, but somehow nothing seemed forced. Richard Watson as the jovial Judge and Gwyneth Cullimore as the charming but money-conscious Plaintiff helped to make the evening joyous for both the arrogant Savoyard and the man who merely...
...founding the student movement to draft Eisenhower for the presidency, (to break Truman, he explains) but the club as a whole voted last month to support Justice Douglas. The split is purely a tactical one--"expediency versus idealism," as Houghteling explains it--and is by no means a permanent breach...