Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned, withdrawal should not be interpreted as weakness. First, the Republic of Korea forces have been substantially built up (to 19 divisions) to handle any renewed attack. Second, the United Nations forces have promised that a breach of the Korean armistice "would be so grave that, in all probability, it would not be possible to confine hostilities within the frontiers of Korea." Added General Ike, in a thinly veiled promise of an atomic counterattack: "Our growing national air power possesses greater mobility and greater striking force than ever before . . . The U.S. military forces in the Far East will be maintained...
...Communist Longo, then as now a better organizer than speechmaker, got trapped in dialectic during an argument at a trade-union meeting. With a naturally glib tongue sharpened in many a workers' demonstration, a young woman Communist and ex-sewing-machine girl named Teresa Noce rushed into the breach and with crushing Marxist logic silenced Longo's opposition. Gratitude and love mingled in Longo's heart, and soon afterward the two were married...
SEPTEMBER-Never Give Up. In Denver, suing a dance studio for $2,610, Mrs. Murrell Selby Collins, 52, charged breach of contract, testified that after 260 lessons an instructor had called her "a silly old fool who would never learn to dance...
...battle of the Crater, outside Petersburg, the last defense post for Richmond. A bright young colonel on General Burnside's staff thought up the idea of digging a 500-ft. tunnel under the Confederates key redoubt, blowing it up and running a ground attack through the breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line. The attackers rushed forward-only to bog, company after company...
...parked outside the station house, waiting for police action, an off-duty patrolman, Anthony Matteo, staggered onto one of the buses and made feeble attempts to interfere with proceedings, making profane references to other policemen, especially Pepe, who took charge of booking. Matteo was later charged with drunkenness and breach of peace...