Word: breaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meatless Tuesdays. Other questions arise in the minds of solons already nervous about Congressional balance of power should Hawaii send three men to the Capital. Whom would a permanent senator represent? Would his automatic seniority be worthy of consideration in the allotment of committee chairmanships? Would these "older statesmen" break with party affiliation, and/or could they in the teeth of Congressional whips...
...First-Class Intelligence." Before Britain could go ahead on any front, Prime Minister Attlee had to break this mood which, in various shades of distempered grey, permeated the national life. In September he appointed Cripps Minister for Economic Affairs. Almost instantly political, economic and social forces began to regroup themselves, like iron filings when a magnet is held over them...
...called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting is to get there first...
...Rose of the University of Chicago's Argonne Laboratory reported that engineers have considered (and discarded) some elaborate disposal schemes. One was to seal the radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the cylinders might break open and discharge their still radioactive atoms. Another proposal: bury the atoms deep in abandoned caves. But they might be dissolved by underground water, flow out and spread the atoms as rain...
...James T. Houlihan, Miami Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army-Navy-General-Electric experiment (an attempt to break up the storm), Weatherman Norton explained, might have been at least partly responsible for the storm's abrupt left face and subsequent heavy march through Florida and Georgia...