Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next afternoon, with Nasser at his side, the Yugoslav leader told 50,000 cheering old partisans gathered on the Sutjeska battlefield: "No one can break us." Nasser himself, by visiting Tito at this point, was making the most audacious affront to the Soviets he had ever risked. According to Cairo scuttlebutt, Nasser returned from his recent 17-day state visit to Russia bored by too many banquets and somewhat unimpressed. He also came home with no more Russian rubles, though reportedly the kind of Russian help he likes most-complete diplomatic backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble...
...White House huddle, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles decided to 1) refrain from denouncing the Russian backout threat, and 2) send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
...Price, calls the show "a genuine free commercial." But Philco believes there is almost no value to lesser shows, in which the winner gets a staggering list of prizes, the product itself gets only a quickie mention, and the viewer gets only a flash look. Furthermore, to break onto one of these shows, a company often has to make an under-the-table payoff in cash or merchandise to the show's producer or to a middleman...
...biggest break came in the new 2⅝% interest bonds which came out fortnight ago (TIME, June 23). Many Wall Streeters touted the bonds as sure to rise, as other recent Government issues have risen. Demand was so great that New York City banks' loans to brokers against Government obligations (which helped the brokers to carry the thinly margined speculators) hit a twelve-year high of $1,357,000,000. Just after the bonds came out, they hit 100½. But by last week the bonds had skidded a full point to 99½, due largely to rumors that...
...Began. In San Jose, Calif., after International Business Machines Corp. installed a large electronic computer in a new plant, Mathematician William Mitchell equipped it with a glass-enclosed Chinese abacus and a sign reading: "In case of emergency, break glass...