Word: breech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adele Breech Northport...
...animosity been so nakedly displayed. As Cairo's semiofficial daily al-Ahram put it last week: "The Middle East question has reached a peak of political and diplomatic confrontation that is no less ferocious than the October War." Nonetheless, Washington remained hopeful that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance might breech the gap a bit on his trip to the Middle East this week. Both sides, in fact, are expected to participate in another foreign ministers conference like the one the U.S. arranged in Britain last month...
DIED. Ernest Robert Breech, 81, hard-driving executive who helped galvanize an ailing postwar Ford Motor Co.; following a heart attack; in Royal Oak, Mich. Son of a Missouri blacksmith, Breech showed a big-city flak for business management and a wizardry with figures that propelled him to the chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus...
...more likely to produce healthy youngsters. Improved monitoring techniques also favor surgery. Because machines can reveal almost instantly if the baby's heartbeat or position in the womb is abnormal, many doctors now automatically take the caesarean route when difficulties are encountered. As a result, risky breech births-in which the baby's head is not pointing downward and must be manipulated with instruments-are easily avoided...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...