Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work a little longer they'll give you time and a half. If you keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the track, you can forget the men who're walking back and forth above you asking for a decent union and a decent break. And if you really like the money and care a lot for the City, they'll give you a place to sleep and some food to eat right down in the subway, so you can keep your eye off the man who's walking back and forth upstairs, striking for his union...
...want to bust the strike and break the men who tried it, you can stick with the job and get protected by Mike Quill's union. And the motormen and conductors who want their own union and don't like Quill's way of moving can just keep walking with their Union, because the law says they have no right to walk out on the city...
Loos went to work that day, and was available to the press only at a ten-minute break in the afternoon. He spent the night playing chess with a World-Telegram reporter (he learned to play by mail) and by morning decided to call the whole thing...
...served to cancel more basic claims of racial equality. The city has established, at least in principle, that its sizable minority groups will be protected in their efforts to improve their living conditions. Furthermore, any future breakdown of housing segregation will be doubly advantageous, since it will help break down the unofficial school segregation in the city...
Captain Lanse Fair, scoring 283 out of 300 points, led his team to Harvard's highest score since a 1400 in the Ivy League championship two years ago. He said, "I am pleased by the squad's showing and think that we can break the Varsity record of 1406 this season...