Word: break-through
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...Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro Leagues, ranges into the famous Robinson break-through with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and finishes up with a detailed a count of the ensuing full integration of the sport, and the bringing up of "Pumpsie" Green in 1959 to the Red Sox, the last bastion of lily whiteness...
Educational lobbyists yesterday called the legislature's move a major break-through for funding higher education. "It took almost 20 years to get $19 million in state scholarships; now we've gone up another $15 million in one year," James B. King, associate v ice president for state and community relations, said yesterday...
...Menachem Begin in Washington, a week after conferring with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Carter won an agreement that the two sides would keep talking, on an accelerated schedule, about autonomy for the Arabs living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was all: there was no break-through whatever on substantive issues -but then, Carter did not seek...
Balch found that this spiritual break-through implements a sort of mind expansion whereby one no longer needs to define his life by the limitations of his past. He is born into his inner world and finds there the potential to become what he wants...
Olitski's "break-through" -- the sudden leap from mediocre early work so characteristic of modern painting -- occurs in 1964 with paintings like Deep Drag. Here Olitski turns to a rectilinear ordering of the forms: the circles are still there, but they have been driven to the edges where they interact with long, brushed forms to shape out a composition clearly accepting the limits of the frame. (Eventually those circles will be reduced to thumbprints on the smooth field, and finally can be observed as mere drops.) Olitski's characteristic banishment of all drawing to the edges of the canvas appears...