Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the evening the Crimson bombed Logue with 32 shots--against 20 shots at Pratt--but only a few of them were intelligently played. Several times a Crimson forward would break in on Logue and shoot dead on without attempting to outmaneuver...
Hammond gave no particular reason why the Faculty Club now wants to break precedent for an official liquor permit. "There was talk about it over the summer," Hammond remarked, "and a group of us wanted to sound out the Administration about it this fall...
...managed to cover Massachusetts like a quilt, post volunteer "secretaries" in more than 300 of the state's 351 cities and towns, and win a spectacular 870,000-vote plurality over hapless Republican Vincent Celeste (Kennedy lost $10 to a campaign worker by betting that he could not break...
...living ad for the paws that refresh. In a day of political moderation. Brown yields right of way to none as a middle-of-the-roadhog. As potential leader of California's big (at least 68 votes) delegation to the national convention, Brown may hold make-or-break power over other party hopefuls. If nothing else, that kind of power may be clipped as coupons for the vice-presidential nomination...
...then had them take off their oxygen masks. Whereas virtually all unacclimated lowlanders lose consciousness in less than three minutes under these conditions, half the Morocochans were able to take it indefinitely and thus made it possible for Dr. Velasquez to figure out average endurance. The break point came at 32,000 ft. in this experiment; only one volunteer wore down the researchers by failing to black out. The rest did so after an average of six minutes...