Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held the manufacturer liable for breach of an "implied warranty" that the steering wheel was safe. The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the verdict: "We see no rational doctrinal basis for differentiating between a fly in a bottle of beverage and a defective automobile...
...sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have remained linked together, but all of them are usually ready to reform and go into the breach once again...
...transformed himself, most professionals agree, into the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived. He induced the first electric current, developed the first dynamo and with it the possibility of electric power, created the science of electrochemistry and with it a primary implement of modern industry, blasted the first big breach in the Newtonian universe and laid down the foundations of both classical and contemporary field theory...
...Harvard Square cafeteria discriminated against the two by refusing to serve them food on a clean tray. "As a result" of the alleged discrimination, the suit declares, the students were "detained and imprisoned for a long period of time on the false and trumped-up charges of Trespassing and Breach of the Peace...
That happened often. "It is true that my advice has been asked by Presidents," he said, "but it must be confessed that my recommendations have been honored as much 'in the breach as in the observance...