Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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July 1. "Preliminary" vote approves Lee's resolution by 9 to 2 with 1 abstention (and Delaware unable to break...
...north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least too sudden...
Events have worked a revolution in the American mind long before the formal break; they have called a new hierarchy of loyalties into being. The American invasion of Canada last fall produced two political effects: 1) because of the idealistic rhetoric that Congress used to describe the enterprise, liberty took on, to American ears, strong and even official overtones that it had not previously possessed; 2) the British decided that the Americans were obviously incendiaries who must be stopped. In January, Thomas Paine's Common Sense issued a loud, clear call for independence, condemning George Ill as "the greatest enemy...
While Nguyens were fighting Tay Sons in the south, the Trinh family, which rules the north, decided to break a 100-year truce and recapture the southern region that had split away in 1613. They managed to seize the southern capital of Hué last year, but the Tay Son brothers intercepted them in Quang Nam and halted their advance. Prospect: further bloodshed and confusion...
...some subway cars, at least for the underground routes. If you are in the back of a Green Line car when its old rusty wheels make their hairpin turn from Park St. into Boylston station, hold your ears--the pain is excruciating, especially if your driver decides to break the six mph speed limit...