Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...community of nations" to Elihu Root, and from that fact he took cautious hope. But even then hope had an acid taste: "The [world] community has grown just as communities of natural persons grow. . . . The neighbors generally must govern their conduct by the accepted standards or the community will break...
Clement Attlee is going to fire some of his ministers. For both it would be a painful business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he shared Labor's triumph in 1945. For them, it would be the moment when they must go to the King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably...
...m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over $30,000 to try to break his own 1939 land-speed record (369.7 m.p.h...
Nevertheless, this constant attempt to smooth away a rough, wholesome play cannot be completely successful. Where the treatment of "Earnest" was natural and right, in "Man and Superman" it is artificial, and when the power of Shaw's ideas does break through, both the cast and the audience are left both embarrassed and helpless. But after a painful farewell to George Bernard Shaw, one can trot down to the Shubert and be amused...
...band will break its own record of executing 33 different letters between halves. Last year the red-coated drummers outlettered all the other aggregations by 197 capitals...