Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete solitude of Cell 54, when I had no links at all with the outside world?not even newspapers or a wireless?the only way in which I could break my loneliness was, paradoxically, to seek the companionship of that inner entity I call "Self." It was not easy. There were areas of suffering which kept that "Self" in the dark, shadows which troubled my mind and accentuated the difficulty of self-confrontation...
...night before, I was so sure that war was going to break out that I asked him if I should keep the children home from school the next day. He said 'No, send them along, like all the others.' I said that at least I would keep our car in front of the school, just in case. He agreed, but advised me not to bother till noon. I knew then that the war would break out around midday...
...course, for everybody. While Synanon has moved in new, provocative directions, its membership has dropped from a peak of 1,800 in 1972 to 1,183 today. Among those to leave was Dederich's brother William, who did not want to break up his marriage of 37 years. Those who stay at Synanon seem to be as hooked on the place as any junkie on his drugs. "They want somebody to tell them what to do," says Sydney Fischer, who left the commune in 1976 after living there for four years. "It's like having a big daddy...
After one full working day, the meeting recessed for three days in observance of the Moslem Friday, the Jewish Saturday and the Christian Sunday. It would resume this week, then break for the Christmas holidays...
...breakdown of lengthy negotiations with the other parties over austerity measures designed to help bolster Western Europe's poorest economy. "It was necessary to clarify the situation," Soares told TIME'S Martha de la Cal, explaining why he had asked for a vote in an attempt to break the political stalemate. "We had to lance the festering wound." A last-minute attempt to save the government failed when Soares' Socialists refused to yield any concessions to the Communists, such as easing up on the government's reclamation of seized lands in the heavily Communist Alentejo province...