Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureau's second in command, and Edward S. Miller, who quit the bureau in 1974 after serving as assistant director of the intelligence division, were about to be arraigned for violating the civil rights of citizens-friends and relatives of Weatherman fugitives-by ordering illegal break...
...over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...like Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) got a lot of mileage out of it, and even more moderate members--Dennis DeConcinni is the most recent example--raised objections. The result was a little friendly rhetoric to tone down DeConcinni's jingoistic clause about American military intervention. That and a lucky break or two saved the administration from a major foreign policy fiasco...
...group's biggest break was undoubtedly Woodstock. A Woodstock promoter happened to hear the group in a local bar and was so impressed that he invited them to play at the festival...
...United States needs a leader with a "willingness to face defeat, to break the ice and to get ideas across to another generation," Stone said...