Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Syrians have looked the other way as the Palestinian command in West Beirut sent troops, ammunition and food supplies south across the Litani River. One of the Christians' goals in the recent fighting was to break out a route to the sea and establish a base near the Israeli border to receive supplies by ship from Jounieh in the north. That failed...
...across seats: cold but moist fried chicken, a questionable salad, a soggy roll and a decent piece of chocolate cake. I ignored the movie Swashbuckler, tried unsuccessfully to sleep (my seat back would not stay put), did not eat breakfast (the sausages looked inedible) and saw dawn break over the Atlantic. Soon Gatwick Airport was coming up at us, six hours after leaving New York. We landed; I grabbed a train for the 40-minute ride to Victoria Station and got there...
Laker anticipated the difficulty of starting a low-fare service in the fall and seems prepared to ride out a lackluster winter. He insists that he can break even if only 189 of the 345 seats on each of his flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar...
...Crimson, this game could very well remake or break its season. Two successive non-league defeats have made people forget that in the Ivies, Harvard is still undefeated and shares the lead with Dartmouth and Yale. The latter square off in New Haven today, so a Crimson victory over the Big Red will mean a two way share...
...accents are all wrong. And the only thing Irish about Father's Six is the in-house entertainment: every few days you're treated to a re-enactment of the Irish civil war. Come to think of it, most of those Cambridge cops who come in to break things up are Irish...