Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm leaders and agricultural experts who gathered at the National Farm Institute in Des Moines felt the same way. They agreed that the break was a natural and much-needed corrective. Said one national farm leader: "We can't say officially that the price drop is a good thing. But it is. The farmers have known that runaway inflation is dangerous to them. That's why you don't hear much grumbling." Said Bill Davidson, an Iowan who went to Europe last fall with 21 other farmers for a hard, first-hand look at conditions: "We needed...
Less Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...been in Europe. The Met had lavished great care on it: the chorus sang well, Emil Cooper's orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult part of a crude and defiant Suffolk fisherman; he was simply a posturing Wagnerian in a sou'wester. The innkeeper-madam thought the part called for the kind of hand-on-hip coquetry of a road...
...University won its 16th straight and Columbia made it 14 in a row. Though both are New York City teams, they are not on each other's schedules, and until last week had no victims in common. But last week, partisans who wondered how N.Y.U.'s fast-break game would fare against Columbia's slow, deliberate attack had something to argue about. Cornell, which had dropped two games (by 61 to 48 and 58 to 53) to N.Y.U. earlier in the season, lost a closer one to Columbia...
...planes grounded, strike or not. He promptly fired his pilots for quitting, and filed notice that he would sue A.L.P.A. for $5,000,000 for "libel and slander." Last week he started replacing the strikers with non-union pilots. It was the first time an airline had tried to break a pilots' strike. By week's end, National claimed to have restored its service to 30% of normal...