Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should break out, NATO forces would deploy to defend Europe and the West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
Nine months ago, in his eagerness to achieve "reunification" with Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party, devious Pietro Nenni formally broke off the decade-old "unity of action" pact between his Socialists and Italy's Communist Party. While the skeptical claimed he would never make a final break with the Communists, and the hopeful predicted he would, Nenni skillfully teased the Social Democrats and did neither. Last week Nenni settled all doubts. "Any social progress must necessarily enjoy the support of the Communists," proclaimed...
Socialist Party's Central Committee in a resolution which drew only one negative vote. "Together we must break the monopoly of Christian Democracy...
...sound barrier, soon hit 800 m.p.h. Twenty-five minutes after takeoff, the President was back on the ground. How did he like it? "Fantastic," said Aramburu. "There's something about it you cannot explain." According to Air Force officials, Aramburu was the first chief of state ever to break the sound barrier...
...psychiatrists pointed out that during the war children often survived the most unnerving experiences psychologically intact so long as a parent was with them, but quickly collapsed when alone, the experiences becoming "enormously important the moment they break up family life." Concluded the psychiatrists: the "women and children first" rule should be modified "by insistence that a parent accompany the child, even if the only parent available be the father...