Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading American League contests today will be an attempt by the Baltimore Orioles to break the Chicago White Sox's three game winning streak and their hold on first place in the League. Other games are: Detroit at Cleveland, Kansas City at Chicago, and Washington at Boston...
Mahdawi: Nasser is a villain, despot, a vile President, a Pharaoh Ramses who could not break the will of the struggling Syrians. His newspapers are all servants of Dulles...
...Boganda was in the midst of campaigning for this week's elections to the Assembly. At the time, the results of the elections were a foregone conclusion. But last week worried Paris observers were predicting that the kind of tribal violence that its neighbors have known could well break out in the Central African Republic. Boganda's strength had turned out to be his country's most dangerous weakness: he had left no one behind big enough to take his place...
...week break from prayer meetings on his Down Under "Crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham went out for a dip in the Pacific surf at Broad-beach, Australia. Later, tanned and rested, he flew off to New Zealand, stirred 3,000 welcomers with a message of hope: "If Christians around the world unite in prayer, we could avert war. We don't have anything in common racially or politically. One common denominator we do have is spiritual...
...neither to elegance nor imagination: when they are not in bathing trunks, the boys wear deck pants, and the girls put on Bermuda shorts, usually one size too small. Not too surprisingly, little that is really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing. The townspeople regard the invasion with edgy amusement; student...