Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What possible excuse could you have for placing King's picture on TIME except to increase the color subscription lists? Throughout the entire black v. white matters that have arisen, it appears that you have deliberately tried to break up the friendly relations that existed between white and colored in the South...
...Johnson and others, tried to explain away congressional and public concern that the U.S. had not talked sanctions when the Russians defied the U.N. in Hungary. It had long been implied, he said, that if sanctions were ever applied either to the U.S. or Russia the U.N. probably would break up and there might be war. Anyway, the U.S. already was applying a kind of sanction to Russia by limiting trade with Communist nations...
...wounded and taken prisoner (in German prison he completed writing a textbook on English Grammar and pronunciation), later was returned to Arras in prisoner exchange. Joined resistance, worked for four years in network called Libre-Nord under nom de guerre Laboule; three times arrested by Gestapo who failed to break him, last time released when condemned friend (executed next day) refused to identify him as-Laboule...
...Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays, few couturiers do much better than break even on their sales to individuals. On a $400 dress, Dior reckons on a profit of only $30 (manufacturers who plan to reproduce it must pay much more for the same dress, sometimes a royalty on each copy sold). Since Paris dressmaking is almost entirely a handcraft industry (at Dior...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 28--In a major break after weeks of negotiations, Israel informed the U.N. Assembly today it will make a statement tomorrow on its plan to withdraw from Egypt and the Gaza Strip...