Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporters, for the most part, live very clean lives. Their job is to perceive but not to feel, to write but not to exist in the writing. It is only a severe trauma that makes them break the cast...
...week's end, the U.S. maintained that it had received no reply from Hanoi to Johnson's latest suggestions-though there were reports that an answer had already arrived and was under study. A break could come at any time, but just when depended principally on two men: North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson. On the other hand, if the present initiative should prove fruitless, Johnson could continue through the end of his term without uttering another word about a bombing halt. Still, he must find it tantalizing to think...
...never the player on stage. And imagine the happy wonder of New York Times Critic Clive Barnes upon seeing a colleague not only participating but achieving greatness of sorts in the role. It happened while Barnes was covering Paradise Now, a Living Theater production designed (among other things) to break down the barriers between audience and actors. During the performance, the players strip down to what Barnes describes as "skimpy yet adequate bikini-like covering." Even before they did, the barrier broke. Up stood Fellow Critic Richard Schechner, editor of the Drama Review, champion of audience participation. As Barnes tells...
...emergency classes outside the schools. At P.S. 41 in an affluent Lower Manhattan neighborhood, 540 students attended classes in churches, settlement houses and colleges. At the elite Bronx High School of Science, parents and nonstriking teachers forced open a basement window to enter and conduct classes. Parents who did break into schools were advised by Board Member Galamison to "sleep-in to be sure the schools re-open on Monday...
...length of the helix varies considerably, suggesting that they are arranged in a coded sequence. To be able to call up one of the 20 different amino acids using only four nucleotide "letters," scientists decided, each genetic code "word" has to be three letters long. But how to break the code...