Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion," the court ruled, "the decision of the Attorney-General not to permit the use of his name in a suit against the College for alleged breach of a public charitable trust was a purely executive decision which is not review-able in a court of justice. The duty of taking action to protect public charitable trusts and to enforce proper application of their funds rests solely upon the Attorney-General as the representative of the public interest...
...Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine was a breach of security. As a result, said Hagerty, the cards will be called in and altered. Hagerty's order, urged by the Secret Service, was not aimed primarily at preventing Communists from forging the cards, since they already are legally entitled to three of the four. The Secret Service...
...heal the breach of peace, the O.A.S. used energy, speed and a historic new tool: armed observation planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They...
Winter's Tale. In Ockley, England, Miss Fanny Ennis, 69, suing John Purser, 73, for breach of promise, charged that he had promised to marry her when she was an innocent...
...good quality of mind and heart"), gets his shrift shortened. Grove V explains that he expected a minimum of intellectual effort from his audiences and failed to write a successful opera because he was unwilling to "speak of his own emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened up his donnish ax on the Queen's English and "made war" on certain usages that irked him. Among the casualties: GLISSANDO, which Blom calls a "mock-turtle with a French head and an Italian tail . . . unfortunately used by composers...