Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scuttled. Congress bowed to all-out oil industry lobbying and killed a plan to emphasize environmental considerations in offshore oil leases. Carter wanted to shelve 23 major water projects dear to the lawmakers' local interests, but he had to settle for killing nine and curtailing four?still a sharp break from the tradition of unstoppable pork barrel construction...
...coming to an end. As they bring in the last of the crop, each can count on being about $1,500 richer. In the barracks at the Bolton orchards, the Jamaicans celebrate the end of the harvest by passing around a bottle of blackberry brandy, a favorite that they break out only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done for the past ten years, he will spend the winter in Florida cutting sugar...
...Harvard football season did not end last week. It just seemed that way. The Crimson hopes for at least a share of the Ivy League title are still very much alive, but the defense must break the Penn wishbone at the Stadium today if Harvard is to stay in the race...
...seen has been just dandy. With fullback Denis Grosvenor ripping into the middle of enemy defenses for 601 yards in six games, and speedy signal caller Tommy Roland scooting around end for more than 400, Penn has ground out more than 2000 yards on the ground to break the school record...
...author-director of Gars and Goyles, is treading near the edge of the Inferno with his creation. A loose musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the fall production of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society suffers the fate of many similar musicals that break from the gate with fast scores, only to get bogged down in the backstretch with a muddy script. Borowitz's music and lyrics are undoubtedly first-rate, but his book is simply ridden with too many stale jokes to carry the action. As the playwright's first effort, perhaps, the play...