Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to achieve real leadership of the nation, Carter has so far proved unable to break post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate mood of bitterness and distrust that, in part, brought him to office. He is treated with less respect by the public, the Congress and the press than would be expected of a man of his record and rather benign personality. All this has produced a sense of regret in the President himself. "The duty of our generation of Americans," he noted last week, "is to renew our nation's faith-not focused just against foreign threats, but against...
...murderous schedule before the break--six games in fourteen days followed by four games in six days. We needed a rest," McLaughlin said...
Northeastern's Ron Chambers leaped 24-ft., 5 1/4-in. in the long jump to break the meet record that he set last year by 3/4 of an inch...
...efficiency (pardon me, I'm raving). He'll follow you around town, visit you at work, call you on the phone. Not that he doesn't have his own standards--pay up and it's all buddy-buddy--but welch, and he'll stop at nothing. He may not break your legs, but then again he'll never rule out the possibility either. It's a deliberate form of mental violence, playing on your paranoia and letting your mind do the rest. And it almost always works...
...portrayal of a sweet but simple-minded street tough trying to break into the mafia in Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets" led him to stardom...