Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy that I didn't break or sprain anything. The incident certainly taught me, and I hope others, to be very careful when choosing a locale for frisbee playing...
...pressure the lobbyists to buy tickets at $50 to $500 each. Congressional stars like Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests one of the ticket-buying victims...
Police recognized the killings as the Mob's handiwork but were stumped about the motive. They kept associates of the gang under surveillance, tapped their phones and pressed informants for underworld gossip. The break finally came when an associate of the thieves, who had fled West, was picked...
Evans truly deserves the title of the world's first modernist photographer. That is, he was the first photographer to break away from the impressionistic, pictorial vision of his predecessor, Alfred Stieglitz. While Stieglitz captured the more romantic-- misty weather scenes and soft focus portraits-- with an emphasis on mood, Evans tried to focus on a clarity and cleansing of the photographic medium, engaging in a kind of anti-art campaign. He labeled Stieglitz's art as "veritably screaming aestheticism." His photographs are straightforward views of everyday people in ordinary settings and the objects of their contemporary living...
...Sudanese security men had to break up a wrestling match between Algerian and Moroccan delegates over a map of Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...