Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enviable position. Unlike Stassen, Vandenberg had trampled on no toes, aroused no vindictive anger among other candidates. In fact, Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey have repeatedly gone out of their way to praise him. Few GOPoliticos believed that either Taft or Dewey would give up for the other to break a stalemate; instead, most believed that they would settle on Vandenberg as the man around whom all G.O.P. elements could most readily unite...
Gilda Gray, whose beaded shimmy-dancing startled a lot of people in the '20s, startled Sterling, Colo. The assistant principal of the high school invited her to a school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said...
...mustn't think of these people," said General Ike Eisenhower last week, "as just some sort of unfortunates . . . They are not-they are one of you. I saw a major general, one of the finest athletes of his time, definitely break-break because he could no longer sustain the agonies of combat. He could not talk to me without shaking, and he had to go home. This cannot be dismissed as not touching you personally...
...done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could." He was suspended for a whole year, and decided to be a good boy. "You know," he says, "I don't even break my golf sticks on the golf course any more...
Only Chrysler was out of step. It furnished a prime example of how the profits of the industry-with a break-even point well above that of prewar-might melt if production had to be trimmed. Chrysler, nipped by shortages and wildcat strikes, reported a gross of $336,519,790, up only 6% from last year's first quarter. But its net profit was down 30% to $14.9 million...