Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the biggest break with political tradition came in turbulent Puerto Rico, where the ironhanded 28-year reign of Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party was rudely shattered by millionaire Luis A. Ferré, 64, a "statehood" Republican whose New Progressive Party was formed only last year. Slight and elegantly tailored, Ferré defeated the P.D.P. candidate Luis Negrón López, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction...
...second break came on Oct. 29, after President Lyndon B. Johnson and his chief advisers had probed and considered for 20 days. The best evidence, the best advice, argued for a halt. But Johnson still hesitated, harried by a final doubt. There was only one man who could resolve it for him, and he summoned home General Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam. At 2:38 a.m., dressed in civilian clothing to disguise him en route to the White House, Abrams walked into the Cabinet Room and sat down at the President's left. Johnson brought...
...population is mostly Chinese and staged rampages through Chinese sections, burning cars and shops. The two marines were given a state funeral in Djakarta. Last week tempers had begun to cool. Foreign Minister Adam Malik, backed by President Suharto, made it completely clear that there would be no break in relations. In a further attempt to hold ASEAN on course, he offered his nation's help in mediating the Sabah dispute...
Despite such obstacles, the nation still has a better chance than it has had in decades to break housing's cost-inflating shackles, if only because rising housing demand may soon make it all but impossible to build any other...
...school stadium, and spread the word in the town's weekly newspaper. The other league members like Dothan and Panama City, with populations around 30,000, held little hope that Graceville (then 1,800) could hold its own. It would take $30,000 a year for the Oilers to break even, meaning they would have to draw nearly 700 fans for each of 60 home games...