Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, after a tumultuous storm in the Senate, the veto was overridden (see The Congress). Despite a year of dodging, the Truman Administration had a new labor law in its unwilling hands. Even that looked as if it might be a good political break to Truman Democrats. They had their cake and they could eat it, too. They were freed from responsibility. It was on the Republicans; if the law brought on labor strife, or failed to curb it, it would be the G.O.P.'s doing...
Temptation to break training flowed like champagne last Wednesday night at the Red Top victory banquet after the Yale Regatta; but the Varsity remained uncompromisingly aloof, as they have since they began following strict training rules last March...
...still raining next morning when Capital's maintenance director, James Franklin, circled his light plane over a 1,689-ft. Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter of wings and burned fuselage, near the top of the peak. It was a scene with which the U.S. had become terribly familiar in the last three weeks. Flight 410 had hit the peak head-on 150 feet below the summit. There were no survivors...
...first real break in "principle" came with Roosevelt's "disastrous attempt to purge the Democratic Party of those who had opposed his will." Said Farley: "I could not and did not go along with him. . . . I believe that deep down inside, he never forgave me for putting party welfare above the personal allegiance he considered...
...combat the panning of Duel by critics, Selznick shrewdly ran Duel simultaneously in several theaters in selected cities. Thus he cashed in before adverse comment could get around. Hollywood guessed that Duel's box-office gross is over $7,000,000, half of what Selznick needs to break even...