Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock. Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to London with a new plan to bring back Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, 45-year-old Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed...
...plays. Yale was no laggard either; and the second half of The Game of 1892 saw the introduction of collegiate football to the "Flying Wedge." "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other brawny plays soon followed. By 1894 the games were so gory that a two-year break in relations with Yale resulted...
...important change in athletics which occurred in the Twenties, however, concerned not only football, but rather constituted a break with the University's long-standing official aloofness towards athletics...
...Kiss & Break Up. In Los Angeles, Eva McCullough won a divorce from her husband for the third time, told the judge: "The only reason he married me the last time was to get even for our last divorce...
Paroled Home Week. In Montville, Conn., ex-Inmate Richard Johnson was arrested trying to break his way back into the county jail...