Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, the shipowners determined to break Bridges' 18-year grip on the West Coast. They withdrew their offers, and took the position that they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...
...Freshman football team will be out to break its two-game losing streak today when it journeys into New Hampshire for the traditional Yardling-Exeter battle...
...number of our own men couldn't find seats at times," Little explained. "It's a tough break, but as soon as we get over the peak lead, we'll gladly go back to unlimited inter-House...
Subsequent productions will be "Heart break House" by George Bernard Shaw, "Noah" by Andre Obey, "The Showoff" by George Kelly and "sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayer...
...sudden announcement of the Greek polices' findings came as a surprise to Polk. "On General Donovan's return from Greece a few weeks ago, he said that the Greek police had made little progress in the case; hence this break is rather startling." General William J. Donovan has been investigating the Polk murder for the Overseas Writers Club...