Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sons" is hardly escapist fare. Watching the defense of a man break down under the weight of his own guilt is more conducive to morbid fascination than to light-hearted pleasure. The players approach their task with all due reverence for its theme...
Saddest cases were the left-wing Socialists, who under Pietro Nenni had joined the Communists on the single Popular Front ticket. Said tough former Socialist Minister Giuseppe Romita, urging a break with Nenni: "The Popular Front absorbed and nullified our party...
...Harvard, the crew considered most likely to row for the U.S. in the Olympics, had to break a course record on Lake Carnegie, N.J. to edge out Princeton by one foot. The week before, Navy had beaten Princeton by two lengths...
...means that you are putting down the grain of the green. The ball is going to travel very fast . . . When I see a shine on the grass on the right side in lining up a putt, I play to the right even if I don't see a break in the green in that direction ... I know the grain is running from right to left." CJ "When playing mountain courses, remember that putts will always break away from the mountains. That is true, even if in 'reading the greens' it doesn't look that...
...underwriting contract with K-F. Eaton reportedly said he was going over it with a "fine-tooth comb" to look for an out. (An out developed the following Monday when a Philadelphia lawyer filed a suit against Kaiser-Frazer, and Eaton used it as a reason to break the contract...