Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov made the mistake of trying to crack the whip over the General Assembly. At issue was the Security Council seat to be vacated at year's end by Yugoslavia in accordance with a "gentlemen's agreement" devised in 1955 to break a 35-ballot deadlock between Yugoslavia and the Philippines. Under this agreement, Yugoslavia was to hold the seat for the first half of the normal two-year term and the Philippines for the second. Now, however, Kuznetsov, claiming that Russia had "made no promises" to observe the agreement, demanded that...
...with the war spreading fast, the University of Chicago asked him to head its new department of meteorology. He accepted partly because one of his basic beliefs is that after about ten years a group of associates have nothing new to tell each other. They should break it up. he thinks, and look for fresh stimulation...
...Jumbo's pulled to within a point 28-27, as Shaw paced the rally with 7 of his 17 markers, before the Crimson took charge in the closing minutes of the first half. Using the fast break after grabbing a rebound, the varsity tallied 12 points to their opponent's two, for the halftime 40-29 score...
Headline writers and TV commentators acted as if war might break out any moment there, but the likelier consequence was chaos, which is one of the Middle East's leading exports...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...