Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exiting with his chin stuck out was probably the only way Rose could go. He was blessed by the gods not so much with talent as with the insatiable drive to win. A competitor stubborn enough to play long beyond his prime -- and until he could break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from...
...Communists misjudged their standing with the electorate, they misjudged their allies. The United Peasants and the Democrats, both of which aligned with the Communists after World War II, began pondering their own future in light of Solidarity's sweep. Some of their Deputies began arguing for a break with the regime, to build a political base independent of the Communists in time for the next elections. On July 19 the National Assembly elected Jaruzelski as President, but only with the help of seven senior Solidarity parliamentarians. Eleven Deputies from the Communist alliance voted against...
Alaska v. Exxon et al is likely to break some courtroom records. Robert LeResche, who heads the state's investigation of the spill, believes the legal wrangling will last at least a decade. "Out of the approximately 150 suits filed against Exxon, this is the big one," says Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for Paine Webber. "It will keep Exxon's stock from going anywhere for a long time...
...growing Wehrmacht. Though his generals had warned him that the French would resist and that Germany was still too weak to fight, Hitler sent three battalions across the Rhine to occupy the supposedly demilitarized Rhineland. "We have no ) territorial demands to make in Europe," he proclaimed. "Germany will never break the peace!" It was all bluff. "If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs," Hitler later said. "A retreat on our part would have spelled collapse...
When the lush exhibit opened this summer, zoogoers loved it. So did the bears. They shredded the trees, rolled up the sod, plugged the moat -- and then one attempted a fast break over the wall. Spectators went scrambling for a zookeeper, who propped up a plywood barrier while another clanged some pots and pans to intimidate the beasts and herd them into a locked enclosure...