Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack included a headlock before he started the pounding and a straight-on butt where he would plant his lowered head in Ali's midsection and drive at a turnbuckle. Among the few punches Terrell delivered face on were sneak shots delivered after referee Harry Kessler signalled a break...
...public awareness [of the break-down of the Negro family] increases there will be dangers and opportunities. The opportunity will be to deal fully rather than haphazardly with the problem as a whole--to see it as a social catastrophe and meet it as other disasters are met, with an adequacy of resources. The danger will be that problems will be attributed to innate Negro weaknesses and used to justify neglect and rationalize oppression...
...value -and until recently it placed No. 1 in unmanageability. A mere 10-per-lb. price fluctuation means $50 million to the producing countries. In Latin America, where many countries rely on the bean for 45% or more of their export earnings, wild price swings have been known to break treasuries and trigger political upheaval. Yet increasingly, thanks to the U.S. inspired International Coffee Organization, the world's coffee fits are being confined to the conference table...
...million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered up to 220 for each of Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea is to cut production back by 20% to match what Brazil really needs...
...scene from an underground movie, perhaps? Nothing like it. Guinness, Taylor and Richard Burton were merely taking a booze break from the filming of Graham Greene's psychological thriller The Comedians, which they are shooting in Cotonou, principal city in the small West African nation of Dahomey. If Guinness' bar attire (left over from a just-finished scene) seemed a little farther out than usual-well, Dahomey itself may be farther out than the location of any movie since Nanook of the North. Financial Frankness. Barred from the film's proper location of Haiti because...