Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coffee Break...
...Similar retaliation would meet any hostile move against U.S. ships convoying Nationalist men and supplies through the Red picket line around Quemoy. The news behind this promise: orders had already gone out to the Seventh Fleet to break the blockade by escorting Nationalist supply ships to within three miles of Quemoy-and perhaps all the way to the beach if Chiang's gunboats failed to beat off Red raiders...
...draft note on the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Even the company of such close bridge and golfing friends as U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney and Washington Lawyer-Industrialist George E. Allen, roly-poly White House jester through the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower regimes, failed to give the needed break from the world's pressing worry...
...French consul in Honolulu. But Thor Heyerdahl's exploit in sailing Kon-Tiki from Peru to Tahiti set him off again. Determined to reverse Heyerdahl's course, De Bisschop pushed off from Tahiti on a similar raft, traveled 5,000 miles, only to have the raft break up under him in a tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left Peru aboard a new raft bound for Tahiti, but wind...
Baseball Bribe. With his light bat Banks hit 44 homers in 1955 to break the record of 39 set for shortstops in 1949 by husky Vern Stephens of the Boston Red Sox. Banks hit 28 in 1956 and 43 last year, despite a habit of swinging wildly at low outside pitches. "I'm just swinging at strikes now," says Banks. "I just try to meet the ball and get a base hit." Adds Manager Scheffing: "When he's getting his hits, he's getting his homers...