Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were often disgraceful brawls. Most of the time I was so sick from drinking that I couldn't make it to roll call...
...representatives insisted, their flag would be entitled to Japanese police protection-not under the rights of diplomatic courtesy but under ordinary laws against trespass and property damage. Last week, reportedly after pressure from the U.S. State Department, warning of the economic and political consequences of a prolonged breach with Japan. Nationalist China reluctantly swallowed this face-saving formula, canceled its boycott on Japanese imports...
Bloopers & Booms. But as the week wore on, there was only slight confusion. Months earlier, CBS's Manhattan headquarters had held quickie training courses for about 300 executive-level staffers. As soon as the I.B.E.W. men left their posts, their amateur replacements poured into the breach. In Los Angeles, CBS Radio's vice president of network programs, Howard Barnes, pitched in as engineer on a radio drama; in Manhattan, William B. Lodge, another v.p., assisted at the network's master control board. Publicity men, time salesmen, casting directors and accountants leaped to unaccustomed tasks, in some cases...
...capricious if ineffectual monitoring of outgoing phone calls. Veteran Newsman Brennan (TIME, Sept 22, 1952) managed to telephone out the story of his jailing only by sprinkling his copy with superlatives ("They served us a wonderful breakfast. The bread was a delicious grey color"). There was one bloodstained breach in Batista's hospitality. Reporter Neal Wilkinson was sipping coffee across from the presidential palace when police caught up with a group of teen-age rebels who stopped a few feet from Wilkinson. One cop turned on Wilkinson and, disregarding his cries of "Americano," clubbed him about the face...
Trying to repair the breach, Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell promised to help newsmen get their stories out-provided they do not "misinterpret" events...