Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the requested information was material and relevant in Singer Garland's $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...
Historic Reply. Marlborough, returning tired and sick from campaigning, tried to heal the breach-only to find that he, too, had had his day. Just as the Queen would have no more of Sarah, so would the war-weary nation have no more of John. "Mr. & Mrs. Freeman" were no more: they had been reduced to the status of a common duke and duchess...
...moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true Victorian melodramatic fashion, Claverton's father had squelched her breach-of-promise suit with cash. Now she accuses her former lover of having posed as a man of the world during their affair, just as he has since posed as an elder statesman: "You'll still be playing a part in your obituary, whoever writes...
Like most slaps in the face, this one promised to create difficulties for the slapper. It calculatedly opened the breach wider between Russia and Yugoslavia than it had been since the Cominform excommunication of Tito in 1948. It all but destroyed prospects for an early summit meeting. (Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim...