Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-respecting country can allow its envoys to go about demanding civilized treatment on the strength of such chits of paper." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself seemed equally unsatisfied to accept apologies as a substitute for immediate and constructive action. Last week he told his Parliament that India will break diplomatic relations with the Federation unless discrimination comes...
...people who came to the three-day exhibit agreed almost unanimously that they were heartened by what they saw. Sponsor of the exhibit, with the local chapter of the American Cancer Society, was Georgia-born Surgeon Crawford R. Brock, who believes that only utter frankness can break down something even worse than the fear of cancer itself-the fear of a diagnosis of cancer, which keeps too many victims from the doctor until it is too late...
...Wire. Good luck marked the U.S. Pavilion from the start. The World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within 1% of the State...
...shock effect and a flexible poetic line to match. Two drunken soldiers blurt out news of the death of David; a news cameraman snaps a picture of J.B. and Sarah while a reporter is telling them that Mary and Jonathan have been killed in an auto accident; two cops break the news of Ruth's murder by a sex maniac. Rebecca is killed when J.B.'s bank blows up, and Nickles waits expectantly for J.B. to kill himself...
Below them on the stage, the cast-J.B. and his family-appears ("Well, that's our pigeon," says Mr. Zuss). As the agony of J.B. unfolds before them, Nickles and Zuss constantly break into the action with a double dialectic-Divine Creator v. Destroyer, human hope (flavored with priggishness) v. despair (flavored with compassion). Sings Nickles...