Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the world is in computer hardware and software," says Wriston. "So the Government is suing to dismember IBM. The question is: What is the public good of knocking IBM off? The ultimate conclusion to all this nonsense is that people will cry, 'Let's break up the Yankees-because they are so successful...
...field, cutting the visibility down so much that even the control tower operators could see only inches beyond their windows. In earlier times, as late as 1980, the pilot would have circled in a fixed pattern along with other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced over the loudspeaker: "The weather is bad on the ground in Chicago today, but we 'II be arriving...
...land of baseball, football and basketball, the once funny-looking, 32-faceted, black-and-white soccer ball is a familiar sight, booted about schoolyards, dribbled across suburban greensward. And, finally, the international accents of professional soccer have taken on a definite American lilt as native-born players break into lineups long the preserve of the visa brigade...
...blue and yellow. Gelsey was red. She was the material for his choreography." After six years under Balanchine, Gelsey felt that she could do more. Says she: "I knew that I could not extend myself in the New York City Ballet." The question was, how to make the break...
...also the thing that was most difficult for me to do. Eventually, dancing was the thing that I loved and the thing that I resented." Never easy to work with, she now became impossible. She was late to rehearsals and then threw tantrums if other dancers tried to break before she had drilled herself to exhaustion...