Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever rewards world leadership might return in the long run, they would not be reaped until the hold of want and oppression on the world's throat was broken. The country's decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
...than half-veiled, were fully out in the open again. The Soviet catspaws in the Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, would no longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...
...even if Louis Denfeld was no airman, he knew where to find a good one to take over the Navy's No. 2 spot and the job of running the Navy's air arm. The trick was to break through Administration politics and force his man into the job. Last week he did it. The victory was won when the White House announced that Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Navy's most outspoken airman, would be Denfeld's vice chief of naval operations...
...quick round of winter sports is scheduled this week and next before examinations break up league competition until after mid-term vacation...
...Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. . . . It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century ago. . . . St. Louis of France protected it. . . . It was unthinkable that it should break...