Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This game could make or break the season for the Crimson. Dartmouth is heavily favored, with the pre-game point spread being set at about thirteen; if the Crimson could manage an upset win it would lift the team's morale for the coming games with strong Penn and Princeton...
...multi-uniforms, frankly admit that "this alliance has little hope of accomplishing anything beyond deterrance and defense. Ultimate control over the Straits," they say, "will be crucial for naval and land operations in any future war, and it will take the Russians at least 50 or 60 divisions to break through Greek and Turkish manpower...
...seek to enforce stringently nondiscriminatory policies in private housing. This is being fought by people who fear that an influx of non-whites will decrease property values. Unofficial covenants between property owners have long kept a pattern of tenants satisfactory to those in the better neighborhoods. When these covenants break down, trouble and violence--such as the recent riots in Levittown, Pa.--result. New York is in for a long struggle in its effort to reach the ideal it preaches to the South...
Taxes & Satellites. Searching for reasons, Wall Street's traders had almost as many opinions as voices. Among other technical reasons for the break, they talked of a sudden burst of heavy selling to establish tax losses against gains made earlier, forced selling on margin accounts as prices declined beyond what traders could bear. Underlying all was the growing uncertainty about the course of the U.S. economy, and indeed the nation itself. Early announcements that the U.S. would not embark on a crash program to catch Soviet Russia's earth satellite had a depressing effect. Investors were increasingly worried...
...auto industry's Little Two this week brought out the new models that will make them or break them in 1958 -and the Big Three rooted anxiously from the sidelines. No automaker wants either American Motors or Studebaker-Packard to go under; it would inevitably lead to cries of monopoly, and possible trouble with trustbusters. Of the two, American Motors made the more drastic changes...