Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action against Teacher Minnie Lee Baskin. The Georgia gentlemen's reason for firing her [for letting one of her white students ride in a Negro bus] is undoubtedly the most shocking revelation of ignorance displayed in the South to date. But let's give Mrs. Baskin a break. She did not intend to promote interracial matrimony; she merely permitted a nine-year-old white boy to get home in time for supper...
...provision permitting an increase of interest rates on G.I. loans from 4½% to 4¾%-an increase that will encourage private lenders to handle the now-shunned G.I. loans. The increase was permitted to stand only because Vice President Nixon threw his vote to the Republican side to break a 47-47 tie. ¶ With the help of six Republican votes, the Senate Public Works Committee followed Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore in unanimously authorizing an additional $600 million speedup in road building this year. The Administration had called for a more modest increase that would...
Just as the bartender moved in to break it up, Tynan leveled a long finger at Wilson. "There's your supposed leader, your younger generation," he cried. "He's a dictator. He reminds me of the Oswald Mosley meetings before the war." "Terrific!" roared John Osborne. "A row like this is just what I've been looking for." Explained Logue later: "I objected to the philosophical statement, implied in every line, that we must suffer, that attempts to check, alter, reform, change our sufferings are impudence...
This was a deadlock that diplomatic ingenuity could surely break-provided both Gaillard and Bourguiba controlled their apparent compulsion to put on occasional public displays of unruliness...
...Midwestern, school of hard knocks. But it is Haislip's mistress who finally tells Billings even more than he wants to know: "You're a saver. Cautious and careful . . . Not Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry the day is a suspenseful question Author Brooks does not answer until Great Eastern's final, slam-bang stockholders' meeting...