Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KTVT hit the NBC network with an extraordinary 18 minutes in which Commentator Tom Wayman's skillful questioning drew the story out of three convicts and the governor. Mumbling like Marlon Brando understudies, the convicts described their "diffewculties." Asked if he had a weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular. He was classified as a rat if you wanna put it that way." Governor Clyde, standing...
Since the Mercedes-Benz manufacturers decided to break up their factory racing team and coast on their winning reputation, only Ferrari seems to be in a position to challenge the new Maserati. But even the finest racing machine in the world would be nothing without the finest drivers. Maserati, fortunately, has the two best men in the business: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and England's Stirling Moss. At 46, Fangio, who got his start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed...
...boom-and-bust warnings of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and ex-President Hoover (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) helped start a selling wave that sent the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbling 7.23 points (to 469.96) for the widest single-day break in eight months. The market rallied Wednesday, until a selling surge was set off by President Eisenhower's warning that the Government might have to impose wage and price controls. By that time not even Secretary of Commerce Weeks's prompt assurance that no controls were planned was enough to stop the downtrend. Next day the market dropped...
...shot looks completely Blue, as Yale has three excellent men. Jim Doty must surpass his best, which he might do, to break them up. Yale figures for one-two in the vault, but if Keller and Churchill could get three-four, this Yale advantage could be partially nullified...
Harvard tonight will seek to better its five and seven record, and to break its six game losing streak. It will have to stop the fast-breaking Eagles, and improve its two main playing weaknesses--too much fouling, and too little accuracy from the field...