Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation, which already had its fill of scandal and corruption, was shocked, sorry and puzzled by the news from West Point. Ninety of the Academy's 2,500 cadets, among them the bulk of Army's disciplined and magnificent football team, faced dismissal for a breach of the Cadet Corps' sacrosanct honor system...
...Painful Decision." Hand called it one of the most "painful" decisions of his life. The morality of the country, the three-man board felt, would be endangered if it allowed any compromise of the honor of men who were to lead their fellow citizens to battle. And a breach of the cadet code also involved a fundamental consideration -a cadet's place on the graduation list determines his place in the Army hierarchy; one who cheats gains a lifelong advantage over those who do not. The board's recommendation: dismissal...
...theory was strongly back in the news, and calling for serious attention. If Red China and Red Russia are indeed having a falling out-or even if there is a serious probability that they will have one-U.S. policy should in that case do everything to widen the breach. The danger: the U.S. may let itself be talked into softening its stand against Mao without solid evidence that Mao is breaking away. If that happens, all Asia might go the way of China...
...went to Irene Williams, a former operatic singer, who gave him a lesson every other day for two years. Teacher Williams, who is now suing Lanza for breach of contract, was convinced that he had great possibilities, but she found him a lazy pupil, unwilling to train seriously. Since his mother had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to work, Freddy's father would serve him breakfast in bed. "Sometimes," recalls the teacher, "he'd be barely awake when he came for his lesson at 2 in the afternoon. I used to chide...
...Clancy agreed. In a~ blistering 37-page decision he held that Eaton, in collaboration with Otis & Co.'s President William R. Daley and Ohio's former Democratic Senator Robert J. Bulkley, had used Masterson as a "dummy plaintiff" in a "plot to establish an excuse to breach the contract." Masterson operated "on defendant's behalf and in performance of a common scheme participated in by all." Judge Clancy ordered Otis & Co. to pay K-F $2.6 million in damages, the difference between the contract price and the market value of the stock when the deal fell through...