Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doos will not become fully operational until the U.N. "terms of reference" are hammered out and other national troop contingents arrive. So when trouble exploded last week at the Turkish Cypriot village of Ghaziveran on the north coast, it was the British who had again to march into the breach. Ghaziveran was a particularly nasty little brawl: the villagers, fearing a Greek Cypriot attack, had built roadblocks outside of town. Hundreds of Greek Cypriot "regulars" surrounded them and demanded removal of the roadblocks. When the villagers obeyed, the Greeks demanded the surrender of all arms. The villagers refused...
Truth or Spectacle. One panel worried over the conduct of New York City lawyers, as revealed in a study by Lawyer-Sociologist Jerome E. Carlin. According to Carlin's findings, which are based on hundreds of interviews, more than 20% of the city's lawyers persistently breach canons of professional ethics. Most of the violators, Carlin reported, are lawyers practicing on their own or as members of small firms; in large law firms, standards of conduct run higher...
...this week, Pope Paul VI plans to meet Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and first among equals of the world's Orthodox bishops. The encounter will be the first between a Pope and a Patriarch of Constantinople since the Council of Florence in 1439, when the breach between the eastern and western branches of Christendom-then 400 years old-was momentarily healed...
Some Western diplomats felt the Communist Christmas present was wrapped in blackmail, nervously awaited Ulbricht's next move. But though the hole in the Wall will be sealed up after the holiday season, it will never seem so impenetrable again. After this brief, tantalizing breach, the Wall's ugly masonry will look all the more intolerable-to East and West Berliner alike...
...great breach in the wall of silence about the ancient world is the Old Testament. This extraordinary book pulses with the record of stirring events that took place 1,500 years before Herodotus. Armies march and kings conspire in its lively pages. Prophets thunder their warnings; courtiers and diplomats conspire subtly. Commoners love and hate, worship and sin, bear children and tend their vineyards...