Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overture to Sunday's battle was fierce. A Communist-decreed national maritime walkout tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
Retort Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
Calling the present agreement over Palestine "the solitary break in the United Nations' state of paralysis," Lionel Gelber, Jewish Agency adviser to the U.N. analyzed last night the contemporary Zionist picture. Specking in Paine Hall to the Harvard Zionist Society, he declared the problem a simple one, adding that "the key lies in London, Wasllington, and Moscow...
Policemen who tried to break up the mob met with a hall of empty beer cans hurled from nearby windows and roof-tops. One cop was mashed in the face with a beer bottle, as the disturbance with a beer bottle, as the disturbance spread. Private lawns and homes, parked cars, and the austere old Taft were hit by the celebrants before they went home...
...party, began to celebrate with a tirade against teetotaling Dodger President Branch Rickey, whom Larry does not like. When one of MacPhail's friends defended Rickey, MacPhail punched him in the eye. His outbursts against his own partners made Topping so angry that guests had to break in to head off a brawl...