Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mechanized Corrida Over the centuries, a system has been developed in Spain for getting bulls who will not fight out of the bull ring. Usually, a few steers driven into the arena will herd the reluctant bull to the exit. Sometimes, men were sent in with long clubs to break the bull's legs so that he could be hauled out by mules. Or the peones, or the matador himself, would lure the bull up to the inner fence where an accomplice could jab a dagger into the base of his skull. In Madrid, as a last resort...
Elliott finished the half in 1:59.3. The pace setters faded, and Delany's bobbing stride began to break apart. He looked more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition...
...York Stock Exchange) and pension funds. Another major reason was that the analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that the market would hang fairly close to the 450-460 level before edging higher...
Fickle Woman. The fickleness of woman is a fearsome fact that can make or break a firm. But the beauty business has turned it to advantage by bringing out new products in the twinkling of an eye. The home permanents (led by Toni) threatened to empty the beauty shops. The short, or poodle, haircut filled them up-and home-permanent sales slumped 29% last year. Hair coloring, hardly respectable a few years ago, has grown into a $35 million do-it-yourself business and a $200 million beauty parlor market; three women in ten now tint, rinse or bleach their...
...been severed in 1926, following the Harvard-Princeton football game in Cambridge, which the Tigers won. Charges of dirty playing, a particularly violent issue of the Lampoon, the announcement that Harvard was planning to adopt a rotating schedule policy, and a growing feeling of hatred had brought about this break. The 1931 "accord" signalled the resumption of all contests but football...