Word: breather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ought to be a breather...
...straight victory, mostly with its second and third team (61 players saw action), over outclassed Syracuse, 48-7; Maryland's Terrapins, ranked No. 2 by the writers. No. 3 by the coaches, its 17th in a row, over unbeaten Navy, 38-7; California, rated up with Maryland, a breather with Santa Clara, 27-7; the U.S.'s No. 4 team, Georgia Tech, over Auburn. 33-0; resurgent Pitt over Army, despite a furious fourth-quarter rally, 22-14; Minnesota, a 20-point underdog, an upset over fading Illinois, 13-7, to tie Purdue for the Big Ten lead...
...State Department is playing it safe: detaining people who at other times would enter without quibble, threatening to exclude others altogether, and even refraining from any policy decisions which, bad or good, might arouse discussion. This would not be quite so serious if the Russians, like Americans, took a breather every four years and talked themselves silly...
...most complicated problem started in 1933, when Germany began to default on interest payments on state, municipal and corporate bonds. To give her a breather, President Hoover arranged a moratorium on all payments in 1931. Shortly after, Adolf Hitler repudiated the whole debt; he charged that it was caused by reparations and was one of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty.* As the market value of German bonds tumbled, Hitler's agents quietly bought up blocks of them at fractions of their par value, stored them away in Berlin. When World War II broke, the U.S. suspended trading...
Stenographers typed in air-conditioned comfort; when they wanted a breather, they strolled into an airy lounge with an outside wall of glass, and sank into deep and comfortable modern chairs. At noon, the 1,200 employees all had a free three-course meal (main course: roast beef) in a spacious cafeteria; afterward, they could stroll along shady paths through 27½ landscaped acres surrounding the building. Off work at 4:15, they could swim in a big (75 ft. by 42 ft.) swimming pool, play tennis on two courts, get a book from the free lending library...