Word: break
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Signals from Britain. At week's end Western spokesmen said that the conference was on a "day-to-day basis," might break up any time unless Gromyko offered some sign of being ready to negotiate. But the fact seemed to be that Herter & Co. were not only reluctant to accept the propaganda onus of ending the conference, but also shrank from the prospect that a breakdown of the negotiations might spur the Russians to some kind of action against West Berlin (whose Mayor Willy Brandt turned up at Geneva last week...
...miners' rally in Wales before a crowd of 50,000, mercurial Aneurin Bevan, the man who would be Britain's Foreign Secretary if Labor should win the next election, cast responsibility to the winds. "There is no justification at all for the Geneva talks to break down," said Bevan. "If they do, it will be largely because the Western powers are anxious to avoid a summit conference." As though it might fix things, Bevan added that he and Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell will go to Moscow in August "to try to undo the harm Mr. Macmillan...
Political Lecture. Having put down the rank and file, Adenauer was ready to deal with Erhard himself. Already a bitter joke was circulating: Adenauer should get an honorary degree in medicine for being "able to break the spine of 270 Christian Democratic parliamentarians without spilling one drop of blood." Morning after Erhard's arrival, party go-betweens took him to the Palais Schaumburg to hear soothing words from Adenauer, accompanied by a brisk lecture on the mathematics of political survival. Adenauer conceded that Erhard, with the help of perhaps 30 or 40 Christian Democrats, might be able to collect...
...more than 400 years, peasants have been growing the small, delicious variety in the rich volcanic soil of Naples province, and as harvesting began three weeks ago, it was evident that this year's crop was the best ever. But the price was wrong-a less-than-break-even 1? a pound to growers, although the Naples retail price was 7?. In the town of Marigliano last week, the farmers' frustration turned to violence...
...started shooting. I knew she was going to be tremendous. Very few girls could jump in my lap and say 'Please love me' the way she did it. And she has so much pathos, she can take a piece of comedy and turn it around and break...