Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderclaps that have rocked the Middle East, Israel has kept extremely quiet. Yet the potentially hottest spot in the whole area remains Israel's eastern frontier. If the British should pull out of Jordan, and Hussein's kingdom should fall into the hands of Nasserites, war could break out between Arabs and Jews over Jordan. Israel long ago said it would not "look indifferently at the dismemberment of Jordan." In such a situation, Israel might strike for the west bank of the Jordan River to give itself a more easily defended border. A single incident last week brought...
...weather did better than the government. A fierce storm toppled the big antenna into the sea. Undaunted, Fogh made repairs. He already has contracts worth $292,000 from commercial-time sales. His goal: 800,000 steady listeners and a lot more kroner. Says he happily: "We hope to break the state monopoly and eventually get permission to operate on dry land. After that, we'll build a television transmitter as well...
...quarterly dividend of 75?. Earnings declined far less from the year-ago level ($115,943,000 while at 89.5% capacity) than most Wall Streeters had expected. The report at long last destroyed Wall Street's old assumption that Big Steel needed to pour at 65% capacity just to break even. Furthermore, it showed that U.S. Steel's second-quarter rate of income from sales, 8.5%, was the highest of any integrated steel producer...
Died. Franklin Pangborn, 60-odd, longtime cinemactor-comedian, stage and TV performer, who played foil to W.C. Fields in The Bank Dick and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, to Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight and George Washington Slept Here; after an operation; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Like a compulsive private eye, the hero avidly watches over the years as father and daughter become almost subhuman in their batterings at each other's dignity and sense of decency. What drives him is a need to break through the outer shells of people and look through to the frightening inner swamps of fear and desperation. What he finds in himself is a weak schizophrenic who sees the world and normal people masked against him. Spying on his own inner self, or on the girl and her father, becomes more important to him than anything that can happen...