Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Brazilians had approved the Soviet break (TIME, Oct. 27), and thousands of them gathered before Catete Palace to cheer President Dutra's explanation for it. But the Tribune, smash-up went against the Brazilian sense of justice and fair play. Next day the entire Rio press condemned both the police and the rowdies...
...because "there wasn't enough music to make a living at it." Later, as a self-taught harmony teacher, then as director of Caracas' School of Music, he plugged for a place for the arts in the national life. The revolution of 1945 gave him his big break. Elected to the Constituent Assembly as a supporter of President Rómulo Betancourt's Acción Democrática, he sold the Government on the idea that a good symphony orchestra would be good for the country...
...most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
...Amazon sea apparently extended from eastern Brazil to islands on the present site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
...throws what coaches call a "heavy ball." His passes are harder to handle than the "floaters" Benny Friedman used to pitch, but they are also harder for the other team to break...