Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece's pledged word...
...turned out, Gomulka need not have worried. Khrushchev had come to praise the faithful Gomulka. Determined to cover the last gullies in the 1956 breach between Warsaw and Moscow, he was even willing to swallow Poland's independent, inch-slow progress along the road to agricultural socialism. "My conscience does not allow me to speak untruths and praise private farms," said Khrushchev. "The cooperative is the best form of organization of peasants' labor, the best form of organization of production. But one must not drive a man to a better life with a whip or, as the saying...
With the help of the conservative General Zionists, B-G carried his vote 57 to 45. But the two leftist parties in his coalition voted against the motion. Lacking constitutional power to sack members of his own Cabinet, but denouncing what he called a "breach of faith" by the four leftist ministers, B-G stormed out of a Cabinet session roaring: "This is the last time I sit with them." At week's end he resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker...
Last week four experts grappled with the question in a new Fund for the Republic report. Religion and the Schools. What emerged was a topflight summary of familiar views, and a sharp breach among the experts. Against aid for parochial schools: the one agnostic, Economics Professor Robert Lekachman of Barnard College, and Rabbi Robert Gordis of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For aid: Catholic Layman William Gorman, onetime associate director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the (Protestant) National Council of Churches of Christ...
Recent decisions of the Supreme Court condoning successive trials by a state and the Federal government have caused a distinct breach of opinion among the Harvard Law School Faculty. Critics have charged that the decisions amount to legalization of double jeopardy...