Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formally tragic. I must apologize for this. His moral and geographic position in life hint at great tragedy and I could not resist suggesting a fury, an activity, a motion that does not exist. Anyway he was half waiting for them to come from America to seize him, to break him dead or force him back to America. Sometimes he said he was a citizen of the world, free, not speaking English. But he was waiting for them all the same. Whatever happens George is over now, for all he wants is to marry a pretty girl and move...
...Administration. It came after a lecture on "business decisionmaking" at the University of Minnesota's Graduate School of Business Administration. Leading into the question-and-answer period, Goddard said he would talk about anything but marijuana. But the first question was about the drug, and Goddard proceeded to break his own rule...
...drive-time man," the Real Don Steele. "My voice," he boasts, "can cut through the traffic noise." Sample: "A world premiere right here on the Real Don Steele show-boss hit-bound the Lovin' Spoonful's She Is Still a Mystery at 3:43 KHJ, break-the-bank time on the Real Don Steele show pow-pow-pow-pa-dow, umph!" Though incoherent to untutored ears, the spiel mentions all the essentials: name of the show, title of song, performer, time, station identification and promotion-all in ten seconds. Marvels one executive: "He really makes clich...
...Increase. "The financial community," says Executive Vice President Ralph F. Leach of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., "needs a strong signal to break the inflationary psychology which dominates its thinking. Seeds of disaster have been sown." Like many other bankers and economists, Leach insists that both federal spending cuts and a tax increase have become "absolutely imperative" to avoid financial chaos. Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve Board would clamp down on credit. But the Treasury's need to finance at least another $5 billion of federal deficit by year's end-and much more in 1968-locks...
...that all of these relationships are a barrier "separating the two halves of his life." To become a whole man on his own terms he enlists in the army. The move may seem rather quaint to some readers today-but Jonas says that to end his adolescence, he must break with his narrow past and find the courage to fight for his own future...