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Word: breaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, after a fortnight in the Florida sun, he was back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Forgive & Forget? | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...break came with 43 seconds to play: a free throw for the Dons. It looped through. The Dons froze the ball, iced the 1949 National Invitation Championship, 48-47. Most valuable player of the tournament (picked by N.I.T. judges): San Francisco's Lofgran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Upsets | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

When water stinks, I break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...love I break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...management must have cleared an easy 50 grand, but you'd never know it from looking at the purses they put up. Take my race. The winner got $850. I've done better time but you think I'm going to break my neck for a lousy 850 bucks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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