Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside world was not afraid to speak. All over Italy, Catholic Action organized protest meetings; in Milan, 5,000 Catholics fought bitterly with Communist strong-arm squads which tried to break up their meeting. In Italy's National Assembly, Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had sent a message of "fraternal solidarity" to Hungarian Catholics. Communist deputies screamed defiance...
...high scorer on last year's basketball team and now a graduate student at Penn, sees the Harvard-Quaker game tonight in the Penn Palestra, chances are he'll be disappointed in his old teammates. The City of Brotherly Love is not likely to yield the win that would break the Crimson's eleven-game losing streak...
...done about this? Man, says Koestler, must make a tremendous effort to put his two vital impulses together in such a way that they will restore him to balance. He must be self-assertive, i.e., he must give full rein to his "exploratory" nature, and by thinking for himself, break through the "horny crust" of habit and convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing, in these bad days, can save...
Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...
...break your campaign promises...