Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm," to give them freedom to bite, scratch, break furniture, tear up books, attend classes only when they have nothing else to do, is more than asinine. It is vicious...
Determined to break Pat McHugh's stranglehold, Barnes charged that the union constituted an illegal monopoly under the state's laws. Superior Court Justice Edward T. Broadhurst agreed. The dispute, he found, was not a labor dispute between the union and employers, but a business matter between the union and the buyers. Last week Broadhurst issued a permanent injunction preventing the union from fixing the price or artificially limiting the supply of fish in Massachusetts markets. Henceforth the union would have to take its chances in the open market...
...resolution would actually give the Labor Government control of the coal miners who could make or break Britain. Last week, at the peak of the wildcat coal strike that started at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire, 70,000 miners were out of the pits. Already the strike had cost Britain 400,000 tons of precious coal. When the National Coal Board asked Grimethorpe miners to increase their daily stint (from digging 21 feet of coal daily to 23 feet) the strike began...
Mother Wore Tights (20th Century-Fox) is a nice little movie starring Betty Grable. In most musicals, Boy & Girl break up over a trivial misunderstanding and treat each other, for the next several reels, like a couple of saber-toothed tigers. In this one, a song-&-dance team of the '90s meet, like each other, get married, have a couple of daughters, and live for years without ever regretting a minute...
...Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up tanks in the 16th Century. Wrote the painter of The Last Supper: "These take the place of elephants. . . . One may hold bellows in them to spread terror among the horses of the enemy, and one may put carabiniers in them to break up every company...