Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward M. Abramson '57, President of the Student Council, accused Planning Coordinator John W. Teele '27 of "a breach of faith" last night after Teele failed to supply the Council with the information they had requested...
Lloyd's concession repaired what might have been a serious breach. At division time, on a motion to censure the government, a handful of younger Tories still remained stubbornly in their places. Chief Government Whip Ted Heath bent over them, arguing earnestly like a schoolmaster with wayward children. At the last minute, two of them got up and headed for the Tory lobby, to side with the government...
...voters crowded to the polls, President Eisenhower was taking a stand for justice and law amid the tangle of a baffling and dangerous double crisis. On the one hand, Israel, France and Great Britain joined in an attack on Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby creating a yawning breach in the Western alliance as the U.S. deplored the resort to force. On the other hand, the Russians were raging through Hungary, grinding down the anti-Communist freedom fighters, even gesturing menacingly in the direction of Hungary's neutral neighbor, Austria...
...would ask Nasser to let its ships pass through the canal. "If the Egyptian government should seek to interfere ["Deliberate provocation!" cried a Laborite] with the operations of the association or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of cooperation, then that government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888." A heckler shouted: "What a peacemaker...
...wrong, of course. The German breakthrough in the Ardennes requires that the company be flung into the breach. Captain Albert once more fails. The film ends in a woolly Walpurgisnacht in which Palance, after slaughtering quantities of Nazis, is ground into the mud by an enemy tank while Albert alternately cowers in bed and runs berserk with a submachine gun until finally shot dead in a cellar by Smithers, who then nobly surrenders...