Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow Cardinals, however, appear to be joining such a movement. In fact, Spain's Marcelo Gonzales Martin declared that an Italian would provide the needed "balance and serenity." One seasoned Vatican official-neither a Cardinal nor an Italian-figures the conclave simply will not have the courage to break the centuries-old lock that Italy has on the office, even though non-Europeans now constitute 64% of the world's Roman Catholics...
...internal heat and better than twice the mark set at Princeton last December. Equally important, feared instabilities at that temperature did not occur, making the physicists more confident than ever that they will be able to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of fusion by reaching the magical break-even point: when as much energy comes out of a reaction as goes into...
...arrival in Alexandria, Vance had waited six hours for the sun to set and for Sadat to break his daylong fast. At 8:50 p.m., the Egyptian greeted his guest and escorted him across the well-clipped lawn of the presidential summer home toward two wicker chairs. By that hour the Mediterranean seashore had disappeared into the night, but the palatial rest-house grounds were lighted by high-intensity arc lights...
...medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...
Paul's death came in the middle of the ferragosto, Italy's traditional August vacation break, and Curial Cardinals were scattered everywhere. Cables went out to them and to all Cardinals around the globe, summoning them to Rome. Sebastiano Baggio, head of the Vatican Congregation of Bishops, had to fly in from Colombia, where he was helping prepare an October meeting of Latin American bishops. On Tuesday, in the presence of those red hats who had arrived in the Eternal City, Villot raised a hammer and smashed the Fisherman's seal, inscribed with Paul's name, that had been removed...