Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing that Harold Macmillan or his colleagues said implied any break or even quarrel with the U.S. This was talk and criticism of the kind that distinguishes true allies from satellites. Beyond domestic political situations it was prompted by a feeling that the West as a unit must re-examine some of its international assumptions in the light of Sputnik...
...Mintoff's eyes, the prospective firing of the naval dock workers was a "pregnant symbol" that Britain did not intend to meet his demands. He seemed cheerfully oblivious of the fact that his threatened break with Britain would mean that not just 40 but all 13,000 dockyard workers would be out of work. Mintoff shouted to cheering crowds: "If Britain comes against us with hydrogen or atom bombs...they will not be able to govern Malta against our people's will...
Hungary's short and bloody revolution against its Communist overlords in October 1956 was a chance for the churches to make a break for freedom. Pro-Red Calvinist Bishop John Peter was deposed, as was Lutheran Bishop Lajos Veto. Staunchly anti-Red Bishop Lajos Ordass was freed from house arrest, resumed his post as primate of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. It was a year before the Communist regime of Janos Kadar was ready to move in again on the churches, but now the process is well under...
Reaching for the Skies. Within a year, on the east side of the property, Fox expects to break ground for the first of 18 apartment towers of 20 stories each, another 20 apartments of six or seven stories each and 21 garden apartments. The complex is to have 40 swimming pools, twelve tennis courts and almost three parking spaces per apartment. Rentals: $75 to $110 per room a month, with some large apartments (five bedrooms, two servants' rooms) running to $1,700 a month...
With about ten seconds left, a Crimson player fouled Jordan in an attempt to break up the Cornell freeze. The calm little guard plunked both his free throws through the news, and that was the story. Final score...