Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expressing regret that armed peace is the only way to achieve immediate results. Bonnet said that if peace is maintained for a reasonably long period, then a unified Europe would make a breach impossible...
...smoke & brimstone a bigger, more powerful man than when the battle started. He and his left-wingers, frankly anxious to jettison Britain's bipartisanship in foreign policy, had forced the Attlee leadership into battle with Churchill. When the rout came, it was Bevan who stepped into the breach...
...understand why they wouldn't honor my check," said Hertz, after being forcibly evicted from the bank. He also muttered threats of a breach of contract suit. Accompanied by inquisitive onlookers, he later tried to cash the check at the Cambridge Trust Company, where Vice-President E. W. Phippen said that he would honor the check but for the fact that it was too bulky to run through the cancelling machines...
Taft: No . . . Your argument is, labor unions should never be subject to suit for any breach of contract, no matter how bad or unreasonable...
...thought it better," said he, "to speak in general terms of the action we should take in the event of a breach of the truce, and I used the words 'prompt, resolute and effective.' I do not believe they were bad words to use. Certainly . . . they are better than 'tardy, timid and fatuous.'" He had made, he added, to the obvious relief of his listeners, "no final commitment...