Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous curtains of rain swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
After eleven long weeks the break finally came. All last week, while the country waited, both sides in the steel strike maneuvered. Then, at week's end, the Government made its move. It boosted its offer to 13? an hour. With holiday pay and other concessions, the actual raise was closer to 16? an hour, slightly more than the strikers' final demand...
Olivier will play Lear through Christmas, with a week's break in November, when he takes it to Paris as part of the UNESCO celebration. There will be no New York trip this year for the Old Vic, which will be busy: 1) building a new and ideally designed theater on the ruins of its blitzed birthplace; 2) starting a school of the theater, which by 1948 expects to be ready to accept American and other foreign students...
...agonizing week. On the steps of Borough Hall, the Rev. Benney S. C. Benson knelt and intoned: "Oh Lord, their chances don't look so good right now, but everyone is praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned in intense, personal pain...
...automobile industry, whose prices were already 22% above 1942, did not know whether to cheer or tremble. Higher prices might easily reduce its sales to a point at which it could not make money with its increased break-even points. Shortages could turn into surpluses with surprising speed in the face of a market contracted by sky-high prices...