Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster threatened on two occasions in the first half of its game with Eliot; but not until the third period could the Funsters break through the stubborn, big red wall to score. Jim Aldrich carried off-tackle at midfield and galloped 45 yards to the Elephant five. After two plays had moved the ball to the one-foot line, Chuck MacDonald cracked over for the game's only touchdown...
...British lean were essentially political, involving little divergence from accepted American over the counter relationships with the world. But the issued within the next two years will be tariffs, reciprocal trade agreements and lesser foreign loans. A continuation of the Roosevelt-Hull line would force Republicans to break with their past. On these little publicized subdivisions of policy, the country has less assurance of Republican views than on their UN stand. It must be remembered that Senator Taft, the new Majority leader, opposed U.S. acceptance of the Bretton Woods agreement, and was a strong reservationist when reciprocal treaties came...
Violence was a two-way strategy. For the union it stirred another move by Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach to bring union and company together this week. For Walter Geist, who is evidently determined to break Local 248's grip on the plant, it gave accent to his contention of "irresponsible leadership" in the union. One of the sourest labor disputes in the country had gone bitter again...
...when NHA asked WAA to break its agreement with Tucker Corp., WAA balked, asked: "How can anybody be expected to deal with the Government if contracts with a Government agency are revoked?" And this at a time when WAA was trying to sell 48 other surplus plants in the Chicago area. Furthermore, Tucker's President, Preston Tucker, already had 165 men at work on a pilot model. Altogether, said Tucker, he had put $1.3 million of his own and his relatives' money into the project. He protested that to move now would be calamitous...
...exciting escape from Bob Tasmin and the everlasting Right Thing he represented. Bob always said and did the right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...