Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lastingly the bonds with those great nations, those great friends with whom we now so plainly disagree. And I, for one, am confident that those bonds will do more than survive. But this we know above all: there are some firm principles that cannot bend-they can only break. We shall not break ours...
Britain's bombers over Cairo made the really shocking surprise of the week: Russia's conduct in Hungary was more cruel because bigger in the totals of human slaughter, but it was, after all, in character for Communists. Israel could claim the need to break the menacing circle of declared enemies. France had emotional and strategic reasons for crushing Nasser, to get at the source of supply of the Arab rebels in French North Africa. As for Britain, its justification for aggression against Egypt had to be that a quick war could bring the kind of Middle East...
...just that where he once had the brothel-keeping Mrs. Warren's daugh ter break with her mother, he has the munitions-making Undershaft's daughter end up blowing kisses at her father. It is not that he should make Undershaft not only no villain but a charmer. It is that he should make him not only a charmer but a hero. It is that he should suggest that the best way to keep half the world well-fed is to blow up the other half...
...followed by the Tiger-Prince Dance, featuring the orchestra of Benny Goodman. Despite the steep admission charge of $10, over 1000 couples were expected to attend, mainly because there were few other things to do. The project, sponsored by the college paper and humor magazine, needed 1000 couples to break even...
...second half the Crimson let down, as a lack of depth among the halfbacks began to tell, but Penn did not break through until 5:10 of the final period...