Word: breaking
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Administrators face a different morale problem. "I shudder to think .of the discipline cases and the future of home-school cooperation," says one principal. "What are we going to say now when a kid cuts classes?" Students saw some teachers break windows in school buses. Indeed, some parents have told their children that they do not have to obey certain teachers any more. 'They set a bad example," declares MacArthur Junior Suzanne Lewis. "They broke...
...again a few days ago. Kennedy was five hours late, not arriving until 2:30 a.m. Thousands waited in the autumn night, overjoyed that at last the slender young candidate had appeared. The American promise stood in front of them. They did not want to go to bed, to break the magic moment...
...Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down, get jammed, catch fire, or blow...
Needing only to kill off the remaining 5:58 for victory, RPI's defense tightened. Harvard needed a break--and got it with a little over two and a half minutes left in regulation...
...laugh because she has arrived. She is no longer merely the precocious daughter of fabled Mathematician John von Neumann, or just the Radcliffe summa who became the first of several modern women to break into high economic policymaking in Washington. A happy wife and mother of two, Whitman, 43, frames corporate policy as a director of Westinghouse, Procter & Gamble and the Manufacturers Hanover bank, conducts a weekly TV economics program, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and travels everywhere advising officials on the global economy. Says Whitman: "I've advanced from a freak to a role model so fast...