Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insistence, Violet was brought to Psychiatrist G. Charles Sutch. Typically, in cascades of anxiety and tears, she persisted in saying: "I don't know what happened. I just don't remember." Sutch gave her a dose of Sodium Amytal (truth serum) in an attempt to break through the "tremendous amnesic barrier." "You can remember, Violet," he persuaded her gently. "Tell me everything that happened." Violet haltingly told her story: she had returned home from a restaurant with her husband, quarreling, on the way, about the food. Then...
Lebanon (pop. 1,425,000). Smallest Arab country, officially half Christian and half Moslem, the cultural and commercial center of the Arab Levant. Pro-U.S., and less hostile to Israel than any other neighboring state, Lebanon alone among the Arabs has so far refused to break diplomatic relations with Britain or France...
From there on the debate grew hotter and hotter. Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt wanted all Arab states to break off relations with Britain and France unless the invaders pulled out of Egypt at once. But Jordan and Iraq were not yet ready to break with Britain, source of much of their revenues, and Lebanon's Chamoun did not want to break with anybody. The Iraqis let neighboring Syria know that they were extremely unhappy at destruction of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline across Syria. By blowing up three desert pumping stations, the Syrian army...
Simple Philosophy. Watching their team scramble back into the ball game, Volunteer fans reminded themselves that playing the breaks is what Johnny Majors and the rest of Coach Bowden Wyatt's boys do best. They have to. The Volunteers started the season with a squad that no self-styled expert took seriously. Of course, they had little Johnny (5 ft. 10 in., 162 Ibs.), and he could do anything with a football; they also had a couple of tough line men: End Buddy Cruze, Tackle and Captain John Gordy. But that was about all. Making the best...
...comfort to souls appears to be broken . . . Can the world disinterest itself in these brothers, abandoning them to a fate of degrading slavery? Let all other problems be set aside . . . Perhaps if nations which sincerely love freedom and peace are united, this will be sufficient to induce those who break the fundamental laws of human understanding to milder counsels...