Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3^ years and more than 3,200 pages of court testimony, Henry J. Kaiser finally laid an old enemy low. He won his breach of contract suit against Otis & Co., Financier Cyrus Eaton's Cleveland underwriting firm. In 1948, Otis & Co. signed up to help float 675,000 shares of Kaiser-Frazer stock at $11.50 a share; under the contract, the underwriters could bail out if anyone should try to block the stock issue in court. At the last minute Eaton bailed out, using as an excuse a suit against K-F to prevent the stock issue...
This physical relief, the author says, was a direct result of the first breach in the wall of fear surrounding her. As she explains it, Dr. John helped her to see that she had (wrongly) felt herself unloved. That feeling had made her afraid. Besides fear, she had felt guilt - perhaps she was unworthy of being loved. Against both fear and guilt, Lucy built up a defense: anger. But she felt guilty about the anger, turned it upon herself, and punished herself with psychosomatic illness (which also served to justify self-pity...
...member of Congress (Lieut. Evans had given him permission to publish it). The Navy, getting wind, let out an outraged howl at so blatant a defiance of regulations, convened a Board of Inquiry. Last week the Navy found Lieut. Evans guilty of "grave misconduct" for his abusive language and breach of clearance regulations, stripped him of his commission, and gave him a discharge...
...King commuted the death penalty to five years. Outraged, Papagos let the King know that the palace ought not to undermine his court-martial, asked for Metaxas' dismissal. The King, as proud and sensitive a man as Papagos, refused. U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy rushed into the breach, got the King to send Metaxas off for a vacation...
...they had last month, the ROKs again fled from the oncoming Chinese, were overwhelmed and driven back.* Some 96,000 howling Chinese swarmed into the breach, enveloping the 2nd Division on three sides. Even with its flank and rear gone, the 2nd-including French and Dutch units-stood like a rock, fought off the frenzied enemy for three days...