Word: break
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Final Break. As senior Democratic Senator and sometime chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, Clint Anderson was thrown into close contact with AEC Chairman Strauss, and that contact ripened into a beautiful hatred. Today, neither Strauss nor Anderson can give any specific cause for their feud; indeed, each swears that he went out of his way to be friendly to the other, only to be rebuffed...
Considered as a group, the Class of '59 may be chiefly remembered by Harvard historians as marking a break-down of the conception of the Class as a meaningful social unit. The more cynical may think that the Class never was a meaningful social unit, but merely an Administrative device to elicit alumni loyalty and contributions. Before the advent of the Houses, however, in the days when Seniors lived together in the Yard, there is good reason to believe that the Class did play an important part in the life and memories of the Harvardman...
...from the classes immediately preceding or following it. Thus, one would not expect the post-graduation plans of the Class of '59 to differ markedly either. On the basis of a 73 per cent return in a study of the immediate plans of the Class of '59 the following break-down is reported: 15 per cent plan to get a job, 7 percent plan to travel or study, 21 per cent intend to fulfill military obligations, and 2 per cent are indefinite. By far the largest number, 55 per cent, plan to enter graduate school immediately. In addition, many...
...Four public meetings at Geneva were certainly getting nowhere. Neither did the first of their private talks, 15,000 feet over the Atlantic. But already everyone was looking for an agreeable way to break off the Geneva talks in a week or two, and the chief interest now centered on a search for an interim agreement committing all Big Four powers to maintain something like the status quo in Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling...
...that had been colorful and lively went grey and quiet. The Race Course became a sedate People's Park; the famed Shanghai Club, where British merchants had dozed over month-old copies of the London Times, a seamen's club; Blood Alley, where sailors used to break each other's heads in chauvinistic brawls, resounded only to the click of chopsticks in cooperative noodle shops. Bars and dance halls and opium dens closed down; prostitutes and beggars vanished from the newly swept streets...