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Word: breaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October, Humphrey expects an even break in the national polls. Humphrey people say that polls in North Carolina, Texas, California and Michigan-generally considered trouble spots for Humphrey-now give him a chance to carry those states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Modicum of Cheer | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...bearded man with a red scarf stands totally still at the front of the stage. He says nothing. He scarcely breathes. The audience waits. And waits. Gradually, a few titters break out. Sitting at the back of the house, an actress-who dishonestly announces that she is not an actress -chides the titterers for their embarrassment. Occasionally she addresses a question to the man on stage: "Are you asking? Are you telling? Do you need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Shock Troops of the Avant-Garde | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...seduction. Jerry (Ron Carey) coaxes Brenda (Zohra Lampert) into his apartment. He wants to hit and run; she wants a "meaningful relationship." He plies her with a Coke. She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm. They dance together as if a referee had told them to break clean. He chases her until she catches him. But who was the spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Rue on Rye | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...solution if there is one, is to establish a community of men and women who think alike and have made a clean and total break with the 'established way of doing things.' The reformation of the outside society can only be accomplished as the community grows, perhaps gathering newer members simply by the force of example...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Old Mole | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

...used clubs and rifle butts to disperse the students. Several students were seriously hurt. In Mexico, the high schools are part of the University system. The Mexican constitution states that the University is to be autonomous -- i.e., self-governing and self-policing. The use of city police to break up a high school riot is thus in violation of the constitution...

Author: By Kenneth W. Estridge, | Title: What the Mexican Newspapers Didn't Print | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

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