Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than ?2,000 ($5,600) a year and therefore pay a surtax on top of their regular income tax. It was the first break surtax payers have had since 1920. Said Thorneycroft: "We are determined that in the society which we seek to create there should always be room...
...progress and who played games with our faith. We made mistakes, but our aim and ambition were pure and honest. I do not worry about my own fate. One can get used to prison. But if I go to prison, my family-an ailing wife and three children-will break up. That does not mean I am asking for mercy. If this court has no confidence in me, then it should give me the most severe sentence. For if the court has no confidence in me, I do not want to be a free man." Said the judge, as Obersovszky...
...indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan Mohammed V moved with the kind of inner calm that is his special quality. He retired to a small room to pray, then sat down to break his fast...
...horses, keeps 35 cars ranging from a Rolls Royce to a jeep, and big villas and staffs for his two sons and the three elder daughters. Apple of her father's eye is three-year-old Lalla Amina, daughter of the Sultan's second wife, who can break up any council of state by dashing in and flinging herself into her father's arms...
Pete Harpel in the hammer looks like a sure bet to break Sam Felton's record of 180 feet, 5 3/4 inches, but whether or not he does it this afternoon could well depend on the performance of Bixby. John DuMoulin and Doty threaten a Crimson sweep if Bixby falters...