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Word: breaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator R. A. Taft, who is the only man in our Government strong enough to break the power of the dictator labor bosses and end the stranglehold that these people have over the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...issuing a permit to an aged and cooperative Negro, George Alexander Turnipseed by name, who thereupon was rushed to the head of the parade, waving a red flag and protected on either side by Baltimore's finest, who found it better to lead a parade than to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Week of Experiment | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Since the Eagles have demonstrated their ability to stop the fast break style of play in downing St. Anselm and almost matching Rhode Island State, two of the smoother flirehorse units in the country, coach Barclay probably will be content to use a more conservative system against Letvinchuk, O'Brien, and Company...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Basketball Team Heads West After B. C. Tilt to Challenge Iowa, Illinois | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...American Automobile Association reported that road conditions will continue to be good till Christmas, unless a snowstorm should break out. Trafile will be most dense on Wednesday and Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Jam Trains, Buses, Planes In Pre-Holiday Spurt | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Well Done! | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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