Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level meetings with Britain's Macmillan began, the decision was made in another White House conference to review the severe money restrictions which the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve had clamped on the economy. And at long last, the President was prevailed upon to break the news blackout that he himself had imposed on the state and progress of American missilery. With that done, the new urgency was written in the skies in the rocket's red glare. It was a week that made missile history, and a week that pointed up the successful investment of vast...
...genuine interest which I don't believe existed a short time ago." Said a Los Angeles sales engineer: "Six weeks ago I'd walk into an aircraft plant and it would look as if everybody from the chief engineer to the draftsmen was taking a coffee break at once. When I made my rounds this week, the recreation rooms were empty. Everybody was working...
Questions & Answers. The step was climactic, pricked with crucial questions. The Teamsters comprise the largest single union in the federation; its 1,400,000 members pay $840,000 a year in per capita dues to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; its burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Saragat's answer was the one he has made ever since the merger was first discussed: "Unification cannot date from the elections but only from Nenni's break with the Communists." Saragat carried the day, but only by a narrow margin. Then, drawn and ailing-he has a serious hyperthyroid condition-he headed off for a month's rest in the mountains. Behind him he left a party frozen in factionalism and no longer able to capitalize on its greatest electoral appeals-the useful services it performed during the years when its leaders held high office...
...fortunes of the Crimson depend on its healthy members. Dyke Benjamin, Captain Dave Norris and Jim Schlaeppi should be strong contenders. The key to the whole meet lies in the hands of French Anderson and sophomore Wes Hildreth, both of whom have shown such rapid improvement that either could break the meet wide open...