Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier, swallowing his indignation, then wrote: "Come to see me Wednesday," and sent the summons by messenger. But the messenger did not hand it personally to Juin, and the Marshal lost his temper at this breach of etiquette. "Another day," he retorted, "not tonight...
...DeChant finally decided there was no use holding out, removed the embargo entirely. CBS, which had planned to break the release, any way, was on the air with the film at 7. NBC was not ready. Hagerty fumed-along with almost everyone else-at Drew Pearson's apparent breach of faith...
...Rich, Break the Bank and a dozen others rate even below daytime soap operas as adult amusement. Quiz shows, which currently make up about 20% of network programming, have been gradually dropping in popularity. Each summer the percentage makes a sudden rise as inexpensive quizzes are thrown into the breach left by vacationing winter shows, but few of them survive into the following season. One network executive may have been speaking for most of the industry when, asked what he thinks about the future of TV quiz shows, he answered: "I think about them as little as possible...
...feel that the United States Air Force has committeed a grievous error in not granting commissions to approximately 50 percent of the graduating cadets in the Air Force ROTC program. . . By not granting commissions to these men the United States Air Force is guilty not only of a moral breach of faith to its cadets, but also to the College which has incorporated such an officer training program into its academic curriculum...
...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...