Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys who tried to break me up got broken up. It was no picnic, but I gave as good...
...July the first of three batches of 4,000 volunteers were at work in the Rif. Rising at 5 a.m., they walked to their work sites and worked through till noon, with only a half-hour break. Lunch over, the volunteers moved on to a different kind of task: classes in the ABCs of civic responsibility. And out of each group, the brightest 80 were sent off to a special camp where the nation's top politicians lectured them on such matters as "the rights of a citizen" and "the democratization of Morocco...
...unanimous vote, Iran's Senate last week ratified an oil pact that was a major break in the traditional fifty-fifty profit split that Middle Eastern governments give foreign prospectors. To Italy's state-run ENI and its ambitious boss. Enrico Mattei, Iran granted twelve-year drilling concessions for a strip on the Gulf of Oman, a submerged area off Abadan, and a promising 6,800-sq.-mi. area south of the fabulous Qum find (TIME, May 6). But to Iran ENI gave up to 75% of the profits from any oil find it may make...
...most Western oilmen ENI's largess was a power play to crash Italy into the big leagues of Middle East oil. Probably no major Western company will be as free-handed in future contracts with oil-rich Iran. Even so, the ENI deal is a significant break in the fifty-fifty pattern. The government will press for NIOC participation in future oil deals...
...developed a speed-control device which automatically drives a car at a steady, preset speed. Planned as optional equipment on 1958 Chryslers, Speedostat electrically links the foot-throttle, carburetor and transmission to a dashboard dial on which the driver sets the speed he wants. In emergencies, he can instantly break automatic control by touching the brake pedal...