Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crash. There was only one break in this pastoral routine. This week, Harold Stassen flew to Flat Top, W. Va., for a long-planned engagement to address the reunion of the famed Lilly family.* Standing on windswept Flat Top Mountain, he told thousands of Lillyans of his interview last spring with Generalissimo Stalin in the Kremlin. He said Stalin asked him if he expected an economic crash in the U.S. and that he replied: "No, I am confident that we have found the way to improve our system of government. We are determined to find a way to bring prices...
...break. He requested combat duty and was sent to famed Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
...Marshal Tito told the clergymen that relations between his Moscow-run dictatorship and the Vatican were bad, but, for the present, there would be no break "because I have patience...
...show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged out 159 home runs in in games; in the 43 games they had left, they could scarcely miss getting the 24 more homers they need to break the record...
...Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...