Word: breach
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...injunction against his departure expired at 4 p.m. And moderate House Republicans added insult to injury Tuesday by securing agreement from the congressional leadership for a relaxation of restrictions on selling food and medicine to Cuba, a move that while limited in its own terms marks the first major breach in President Kennedy's economic blockade of the island...
...while opposition to Richardson has been rumbling for a while, this breach may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. How does one explain, for example, the three-week delay between the initial discovery that hard drives containing top-secret information had been taken from the Chris Carter-esque "X Division" of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and any report to Washington...
...Although progress has been made in repairing the 1997 breach, the fundamental philosophical issue that divided the two sides remains, according to student leaders...
...First-years were upset by the security breach, a rude awakening only a month after they'd arrived at Harvard...
...properly qualified are under any obligation to marry" and "Whether the company of the fair sex shall be advantageous to the scholar" dominated discussion. But soon, that too lost a following. The next incarnation of the club was a mock trial group. The case of Aeneas v. Dido for breach of promise was a popular one, as the Pudding reveled in such tomfoolery. They also proudly indicted "Ichabod Roarer, an itinerant Methodist preacher, for frightening women and young girls into fits." During this time, the club expanded so much that the College gave the organization a room in Holworthy Hall...