Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That done, the only concern of most House members was how soon they could pack up and go home. The Senate was still involved in the leisurely Southern filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill. But on the fifth day there was a break. The G.O.P. leadership tried to invoke cloture. But when Senate President Arthur Vandenberg ruled that cloture could not be applied, no matter how many votes in its favor, the Senate recapitulated. It was a clear victory for the South...
...Whittaker Chambers, 47, for 13 years (1924-37) a member and "paid functionary" of the Communist Party, a strong anti-Communist since 1937. In 1939, two years after his break from Communism, Chambers joined the editorial staff of TIME, is now a senior editor...
Their success has been hidden from the world by U.N. maneuvering and by a confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for the divided and debilitated Arab world to conquer...
...college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus...
...Commissioner of Police, admires or despises him because, in a world of utter corruption, Policeman Scobie seems utterly incorruptible. What they do not know-what Scobie himself does not know at first-is that in order to feed his voracious sense of pity, Scobie is ready, if necessary, to break the most cherished laws of both Church & State...