Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter is not expected to break his busy schedule to fly up to Cambridge tomorrow...
...union became hopeless in those pre-Wagner Law days, and the lines of the hungry strikers' families lengthened from dark to dark. Not knowing what the hell we could do about it, we nevertheless used the blessed interval of Reading Period to drive down. The idea was to break through the dreary isolation of the deprived. We made speeches in an available auditorium, stayed a couple of days and, like intellectuals through the ages, were hit and ran back to the security of the University womb...
...Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such as the 1976 National Air and Space Museum by Gyo Obata. But perhaps one more structure was needed to break this bind, to show that a modern building could embody the ceremonial gravity of "official" architecture while refusing to compromise its own inventiveness. On June 1 that structure opens to the public. It is, of course, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., designed...
...fondly believe to be amusing slices of disco life on a typical weekend evening: underage teeny-boppers trying to sneak in so they can win the dance contest; a middle-class housewife trying to get her accountant husband to loosen up a little; a singer looking for her big break; the deejay in his glass booth worrying that the Commodores' instruments won't arrive in time for their live broadcast performance; the joint's owner looking for a lady on whom to exercise his distinctly resistible charms for a one-night stand; various other stud: looking...
While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...