Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have enough talent, we just have to break out of the slump," he said last week in an exclusive interview with The Crimson. "We've just got to have a little patience...
This was all I knew, and as I stalked down to Dillon last week, I was all set to tell Cleary not to be such a big baby over one mistake, to give us a break like he gave The Globe. I figured this approach, along with a backrub and a new Volare, would do the trick...
Discard's comeback appeared to confirm the wisdom of his election tactic ?namely, to stay above the political fray. One reason for his break with Chirac last year was Giscard's refusal to join the Gaullist leader, who then was the country's Premier, in a concerted public assault on the left. Giscard reasoned that attacks would only weld the Communists and Socialists together; if left alone, he calculated, the parties would be torn apart by internal contradictions. His analysis is proving correct...
Fossilization takes place only under special conditions. An animal or plant that dies and is soon after buried in mud or covered by volcanic ash stands a decent chance of being preserved; one that perishes in a jungle or rain forest will probably break down into its chemical components and simply disappear. Few fossils that are formed survive; most are destroyed by the continuing erosion of wind and water. Fewer still are discovered. Though hominid fossils may exist elsewhere, they are found most abundantly-and frequently-in eastern Africa. There, geological processes have exposed layer upon layer of sediments that...
...singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes. When it came time for the creed, however, one of the visiting priests began chanting hesitantly in English, "I believe in one God ..." Joyously, the entire congregation joined him. Soon after, in a major break with tradition, the church chose its first American-born leader...