Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though few Quick Kill graduates have yet reached Viet Nam, Colonel Koob is certain that their training will pay off in combat. It has certainly paid off in enthusiasm. One Benning non-com claimed last week that recruits actually sprinted back from a ten-minute break to be in time for BB-gun drill...
...heart, most of the Arab masses may really be indifferent toward Israel, but they have been so hypnotized by propaganda that they no longer realize this. There is an aching need for one courageous Arab leader to call reality by its name and break the spell of illusion. But it can scarcely happen now. It probably cannot happen until the Arabs begin to feel "equal and different" toward the West, including Israel; until they find sources of pride and confirmation of manhood in causes other than holy war; until they begin to distinguish the difference between word and deed. That...
...Harvard's weight and strength began to tell. Stroking at a steady 36, the powerful Crimson boat edged alongside, fought off still another Vesper sprint, and drew out to win by 1 ½ lengths. And so back to the stadium they went, but this time they got a break-they only had to do the steps 25 times...
...putting superbly, Catherine opened up a seven-stroke lead that put the tournament safely out of reach, despite a case of last-round jitters-six bogeys in seven holes. Finishing with a ten-over-par 294 and a two-stroke victory, she dashed off to a telephone to break the news to her father, who was celebrating his 63rd birthday in Paris...
...spite of the hints of movement in these stories and texts, all is really paralytic stasis-except for the voices, the indomitable voices, droning on. They are at once the final buffers and the last instruments capable of registering anguish: "Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased . . . my words are my tears, my eyes my mouth...