Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honest. A tax break is an exemption when it applies to us and a loophole when it applies to others...
...anachronistically simplistic nation. Long hair is now immoral for schoolboys; the government has ordered haircuts, and in some cases police wielded the shears themselves. Bouzouki tavernas, where high-spirited Greeks loved to smash crockery in time with the frenzied music, have been tamed: guests are no longer allowed to break even a single saucer. Miniskirts are forbidden for young girls, and bar girls are being discouraged. Government officials must attend church-other Greeks are urged to do so to build a nation of "Christian Greeks"-while anyone who publicly doubts God or the army may be held guilty of blasphemy...
...reject what is known as the "two-China" solution, in which each of them is recognized for what it is: the ruler of Taiwan on the one hand, and of mainland China on the other. Each insists that the other must be regarded as fraudulent. Thus, Taiwan will undoubtedly break relations with Ottawa if the Canadians recognize Peking. To make certain that Taiwan's hard line is still clearly understood everywhere, the congress last week concluded with a warning that the Kuomintang and the Taiwan government "resolutely oppose any moves that lead to appeasing the Maoist regime...
...COURSE the most important one for the community was the first one, which demanded that the University immediately abolish all reserve officer training, and specifically said "break all existing contracts." What's important about this, I think, is not so much the specific terminus ad quem cited, but the relationship in the community's mind between that, which, incidentally, is a demand to ignore the Faculty's vote to retain ROTC but on essentially an extracurricular basis, or at least, to turn it around, to remove curricular credit and let ROTC remain on whatever term could then be worked...
Richie Szaro sailed the javelin 231'7" to break the record in that event, Tom Spengler cracked the mile mark with a 4:09.2 clocking, and Dave Pottetti shattered the two-mile record, turning in a time of 9:13.3. In addition to breaking the track record, Szaro's throw also set a new Harvard mark...