Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbor to this orgy, Bogard realizes that to help the girl he must commit himself, for once, to action--the moral crux of the book. To call the Yard Cops is outside "the code," and in trying to break up the festivities himself he is discouragingly slammed around. Finally, he and a med-school friend put the girl into some kind of shape and send her home. Bogard is called before the deans to answer for his failure to notify the police. But because he tried to help the comatose slut, Bogard is not expelled, but allowed to resign...
...rural Japan is no longer the place the elders knew. First break in the age-old pattern of peasant poverty came with the land-reform law imposed on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur...
...wryscracks that hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
Hardest hit nation will be Peru, which stands to lose $12,000,000 a year in dollar earnings, or about 4% of all export income. Mexico also faces a loss of $12,000,000 in the year ahead, plans to minimize unemployment by giving smaller mines a break on apportionment of quotas within the country. Bolivia will lose $1,000,000, Australia $5,000,000. Some governments will have to cut back budgets to accommodate reduced revenues, may possibly slap on discriminatory quotas against U.S. goods in retaliation. But the State Department hopes the quotas will give an important push...
Members of the group currently estimate costs at $671, and losses can be covered by the Ford grant. However, Perkins expects the production to break even...