Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hambli's desertion was a bad break for the F.L.N., since it coincided with an increasing war weariness in rebel ranks. But it would take far more than the surrender of a few score rebels to end the revolt. "History," noted Britain's Manchester Guardian Weekly last week, "offers no precedent of a colonial people turning away from its nationalist movement after four years of bitter war against the colonial ruler" and a loss of 80,000 lives...
...Michigan State, Dr. Briggs left nothing to chance in his experiments. He measured speed and spin in the National Bureau of Standards wind tunnel. For live experiments, Dr. Briggs measured the curve-throwing ability of the Washington Senators' staff in Griffith Stadium, found the best of them could break off a curve at 1,600 r.p.m. Presumably, better pitchers on other clubs could approach 1,800 r.p.m., achieve the maximum curve. As for speed, 100 ft. per sec. is well within the range of a big-league pitcher. Fastest pitch ever recorded: 144 ft. per sec. (98.6 m.p.h...
Auto Bigamists. In the upcoming battle Romney will have one great advantage that the Big Three cannot match: his low break-even point. He can turn out considerably fewer cars than now and still make respectable profits. In its last fiscal year American Motors netted its $26 million profit on sales of only 169,000 units. Ford and Chrysler together, on the other hand, sold 1,429,000 cars in the first nine months of 1958-and lost $61 million between them. Romney can also count on financial backing from his Kelvinator appliance division, which he has thoroughly overhauled; Kelvinator...
Irresponsibility. For a while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust...
Since the United States had an effective margin of atomic power for several years after the formation of NATO, it is difficult to attribute the actual deterrent effect of the Alliance. The limits of Soviet power have, however, been stable since 1948; indeed the Yugoslavian break with the USSR represents a shaky but tangible Western gain...