Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion to break what is left of the Workers' Councils...
...concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach to the royal palace, there presented his papers to his uncle's good friend, Emperor...
...which Painter Beck painted it, rotate page one-quarter turn to the left). Her goal, to achieve "the effect of a new light," bound in from all directions, is ambitious, but she says: "The older generation had the real terror. They took the real risks. They had to break through. We are a generation of magpies. We are not taking the risks the way they did, and we are deceitful if we say that...
...came Continental's big break. It merged with debt-ridden Pioneer Air Lines, giving Six 1,860 more route miles and access to the air hub of Dallas, gateway to a rich transcontinental traffic. By last year Continental's annual revenues had quadrupled since 1947 to $18.5 million. To its present 31 planes (ranging from two DC-7Bs to 15 DC-3s) it plans to add 22 new ones by 1959, a $62 million order that includes 15 Vickers Viscount propjets, four Boeing 707 turbojets...
GAZA, March 10--U.N. troops used tear gas and fired in the air today to break up a demonstration by thousands of Arabs demanding return of Egyptian administration to the Gaza Strip. U.N. headquarters announced several demonstration leaders were arrested after the U.N. soldiers were stoned as they drove the crowd down Gaza's main street...