Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to last year's history of burst, frozen pipes and flooded living rooms, which obliged the University to pay almost $100,000 for repairs, this year's more moderate heat reduction policy over winter break apparently resulted in no damage to the Houses...
...resigned. Some editors at other California papers found the whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other. I think it's refreshing as hell...
...suddenness and openness of the break astonished Western and Japanese oil-company experts and government officials, who at first refused to believe that OPEC had split into a two-tiered pricing system. Some experts hailed the news as a sign of OPEC'S breakup. Said Noboyuki Nakahara, a senior executive of one of Japan's largest oil refineries: "If true, [the split] could mean a virtual collapse of the OPEC price structure." Others more cautiously warned that OPEC could eventually get its act together again by agreeing on the Saudi price, the price of the majority eleven countries...
...blinding smoke, choking fumes, ear-shattering noise. Again and again, French cavalry attacked standing squares of British infantry and were driven off because their horses shied from crossing living barriers. But what caused the British soldiers to stand their ground? Keegan notes that they were safer in masses; to break and run was to become an easy target for French horsemen. Also, the leaders were in the thick of the fighting, where they could see their men and be seen in return. Keegan suggests that the officers' chief function was to be wounded with conspicuous-and inspirational-bravery...
Both teams came out running the break and pounding the offensive and defensive boards before St. Thomas opened up an 18-6 lead seven minutes into the half. High School All-American John Thomas led the explosive attack with two quick tip-ins and a short jumper from the low post...