Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break for the Crimson came in the bottom of the seventh on McMellen's four-run error. With one out, Repetto singled to left, taking second when Tom Bergantino was hit by a pitched ball. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch, and Cleary fouled out. Simourian was purposely passed to load the bases, and McMellen lost Hasting's drive for an error and four runs, making the score...
...plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from...
...small firms have proportionately far less than bigger companies to use for expansion. To escape extinction, more and more smaller firms are forced to merge with bigger companies, thus accelerating the trend towards monopoly. Faced with these facts, almost everyone in Washington agrees that small businessmen deserve a better break...
...Hallett and newcomers Stan Merkel and Bill Gill all did a lot to break up the strong Indian forward rushes, but in general Dartmouth's heavier scrum dominated the game. The Crimson was hampered by the loss of Bob Huff with a broken rib, and the absence of Tom Fritz with a bad sunburn...
...scramble for secretaries often only compounds businessmen's woes. Because of a general feeling that secretaries over 35 are too set in their ways, too difficult to break into a new job with a new boss, businessmen concentrate on hiring "malleable" younger women. The trouble is that youngsters lack experience, are often unable to keep up with the office work load. Ten years ago a beginner took at least 120 words per minute in shorthand, did 60 in -typing; today, she often takes only about 80 words per minute in shorthand, types 45. Secretarial schools cannot 'boost...