Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist cunning decreed that the mu sic of Czechoslovakia be "cleansed" be cause it was in music that the Czech spirit of independence was most likely to break forth...
During the campaign, the police had given Peronistas every break, had gone out of their way to make life difficult for the opposition. But the elections themselves were free and fair; the opposition admitted it, and the results showed it. At week's end, with all their disadvantages, the opposition had managed to get about 35% of the vote (compared with 45% two years ago). Moreover, though Perón's much-publicized candidate Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, he ran well behind the others on the party ticket. Among opposition...
...gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...agreements with Technicolor, with conspiracy to monopolize the industry. But Dr. Kalmus does not profess to be worried about the suit. He insists that his color processes are well known and no secret. Said he: "The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order...
...distorting the naturalness of children's behavior, she leads the reader to envision the camp on the mud flats as a nation struggling to live. And Author Sze's ironical conclusion drives home a sharp point: it is not agents of civilized law & order who at last break up the camp, but an outraged black-marketeer with a Tommy gun, who regards the little thieves as a menace to the sanctity of his property...