Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven legal-minded objectors claimed that the system was a breach of contract, and that door-to-door delivery, as in the houses, had been guaranteed beforehand. One boy felt that creating the job of overseeing laundry delivery was featherbedding, and that he'd "like to get a job like that...
Unable to Count. Victory presumably made Bob Wagner undisputed leader of New York State's Democrats, gives him the chance to heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...France all felt that Wright had deserted the American Negro, and that he considered himself above the Africans. Baldwin himself was horrified at the realization that all this was some-how due to Wright's own American Negro heritage, which, after his rise to "acceptance", produced an irreparable breach between Africans and himself and an individual disdain for American Negroes...
...Harvard-Princeton football series has not been as continuous as that of Harvard and Yale. In addition to the breach of 1926-35, there are gaps of 14 years (1896-1911) and six (1889-95) when Harvard and Princeton refused to schedule each other because of disagreements over rules in the early Inter-Collegiate Association...
...first breach was made by Allan Lightner Jr.. State Department Assistant Chief of the Berlin Mission, and his wife, who drove their military-licensed grey Volkswagen up to the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint for East Berlin, found their way blocked by East German police. After a go-minute wait, during which they refused to show their identification to the Vopos. eight M.P.s, their rifles at the ready, walked across the border to Lightner's car, escorted the slowly driven automobile around the corner, returned the Lightners to the U.S. sector...