Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handiwork. At a caucus of Peronista delegates in suburban Olivos, he explained his proposals for a solid 2½ hours. From a backdrop, San Martin the Liberator looked out upon the assembly; the shield of Argentina balanced his blown-up portrait. Only once did Perón break off: to introduce la Señora and her grey poodle, Negrita, to the delegates. When the Perón speech was over, most Argentines, well aware that the revisions would be steamrollered through next week's constitutional convention, wondered what all the fuss had been about...
Said Board President Joseph E. Gandy: "A happy solution." Said Cissy, who may continue as manager: "All those board members have been pretty good about this. I guess a lot of them aren't crazy about me. But they want to give the musicians a good break, and that's what's important...
After the war was over, Bishop Wurm, at 76, was elected chairman of the council of the provisional Evangelical Church in Germany. The task before him was to pick up the pieces that Hitler had scattered when he forced the break-up of Germany's Protestant federation in 1933. Into this task, Bishop Wurm threw all his talent for diplomatic maneuvering; he wrote letters and traveled from church to church to reconcile varying viewpoints. Finally, at a meeting in Eisenach last July, the aging bishop's labors were rewarded: the church delegates unanimously adopted the constitution...
...team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley and Forward Joe Ossola helped make Hickey's theories work...
...brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...