Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand-picked candidate came in a painful week. Two days before the election, he slipped on a slickly waxed floor in his seaside house and cracked a thighbone. Protesting that "these confounded elections are being held," he resisted treatment for a day, finally let surgeons operate and peg the break with a metal pin. But in spite of his troubles, Odría came out of the election fairly well...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...
When Hagerty broke the news of the President's "upset stomach" from his White House office at 8:50 a.m., it was a break for the Associated Press. A.P. Correspondent Marvin Arrowsmith, an early riser, was the only reporter on hand. His reward: a five-minute beat...
...across the Big Board. At the final closing some 50% of the loss had been regained; Dow-Jones industrials wound up 7.70 points lower at 475.29, but still some 6.48 points higher than the low reached in the May market adjustment. The drop bore little resemblance to the Cardiac Break last September. Few big investors had sold; trading was largely by smaller shareholders. Even so, losses were only a fraction of September 26th's staggering 31 points, and trading volume of 3.6 million shares was half the 7,720,000 shares traded during the Cardiac Break...
This new trend in Reunion behavior has been developing for some time. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22 spotted it back in the thirties, and commented: "It is no longer necessary to break three hundred glasses and fifteen windowpanes in order to prove that you've been college graduates for six years. Amen! Amen!, sigh the hotel proprietors on the Cape...