Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructed the jury to consider only four questions. Did Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...
...left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger and got a new idea, I'd get out and break a record. That would show 'em. I'm too old to do that...
...idea of the revolutionary process operating all by itself in each country. Lenin deduced, contrary to Marx, that the series of Communist revolutions might start in a backward country, rather than in an advanced country. Lenin, justifying the un-Marxian revolution in slowpoke Russia, called this a "break" in the world front...
...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
...professor of philosophy couldn't break the half nelson, though he struggled on. But last week many U.S. concertgoers were pinning the problem to the mat in various ways...