Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of the paintings submitted in art competitions in major U.S. art centers show strong abstract-expressionist influence. The interest and enthusiasm of young European artists or "The New American Painting" suggest that this influence is now being exported to Europe. Whether it will have force enough to break down the scorn of the unconverted critics and the bewilderment of the public is still to be seen...
...crust allowed magma from the earth's hot interior to rise fairly near the surface. Magma is uneasy stuff, an intensely hot solution of steam and other gases in melted rock. When it bursts out in large quantities, it builds a volcano. When it does not quite break loose, it creates a geothermal area like the place near Healdsburg...
...BREAK OF $260 million for small businessmen has been approved by House, is expected to pass Senate. Small businessmen may take 20% first-year depreciation on first $10,000 worth of investment in new equipment, will get more liberal tax reductions on business losses...
...cited U.S. evidence of infiltration, added that the shrill incitements of Cairo newspapers and radio alone constituted interference. "Is the United Nations to condone indirect aggression in plain clothes from outside a country?" If it cannot deal with such aggression, said Lodge, leaning forward intently, "the United Nations will break...
...many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days." There was Chennault himself, who "thought his face was a piece of Ming-dynasty chinaware he was afraid might break if he were to show emotion of any kind...