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Word: breaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pundit Lippmann, this conception and plan "is fundamentally unsound . . . 'a policy of holding the line and hoping for the best' . . . [which] cannot be made to work unless we get all the breaks . . . [i.e.] the Soviet Union will break its leg while the U.S. grows a pair of wings." Asked Lippmann: "Do we dare to assume that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lippmann's Cold War | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Break But from then on, Bob Taft found that he had to stage a full-scale western campaign with all the trappings, whether he liked it or not. Once he got used to the idea, he seemed to like it. His bobble on food prices was a setback, but it had happened early-he had more than a dozen appearances ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Goes West | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...thousand rain-drenched spectators stood in the muck and mire to watch this latter encounter, as they saw quarterback Jim Kenary, this fall a potential cog in the Varsity machine, break loose for scoring runs of 65 and 85 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Practice To Start Monday Afternoon | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...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. For the Yale game the manager assured the members of the band that the big drum will be again fit, and drummers armed and ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game's Fate Rides on Baton Catch | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...Some listeners] started off towards [a] Communist meeting to break that up, shouting as they went, 'Two, four, six, eight. Who do we appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I Love Mosley | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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