Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag plot room and (charged Davis later) "taking tea." Despite the fact that there were two open radiotelephone lines aboard the ship, Davis says he got a busy signal. After arguing futilely with an adamant telephone operator, Davis phoned Knight's Capitol offices for permission to break into one of the lines. At 11:12 Goody Knight came to the phone...
...economic help. Such a move no doubt upset the Kremlin, and represents a significant, dangerous move away from Russia. While the requested total is extremely large, especially considering the uneasy and changeable state of Poland's politics, any economic tie between Poland and this nation would represent a major break in Russia's satellite rule. There are, moreover, obvious humanitarian reasons...
Perhaps the man who will be most missed, however, is the relatively unheralded Bob Barnett. As playmaker he steadied the team when it needed steadying, and was the defensive standout. His speed also contributed to the Crimson's fast-break attack greatly...
...unofficial team championships in the Easterns by an overwhelming margin and serve notice that they will be the team to beat in he Nationals two weeks hence. Only the Crimson's Chouteau Dyer in the 100 and Army's Frank Knight in the three-meter dive were able to break the Eli stranglehold...
American culture in the fi,fties has at last achieved unity. The break between mass culture and high culture that occurred around the turn of the century, culminated in the cold war of the twenties between the intellectuals and the rest of society. Now that war has been healed by the international crisis, which has placed us all in the same sinking boat, by the spread of liberal education, and by the comforting new ministrations of religion and political philosophy. Today, out of many, we are one. This reunion may have enriched the common stock, but it has also certainly...