Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After she won a Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy, she got her big break in 1956 when she won the title role in an Italian TV production of Butterfly. Overnight Italy claimed her. "A voice of the sweetness and brilliance of our heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic. Voted one of Italy's ten most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much...
...pass, stalled when they got the ball, but no trickery tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...
...Night Break. In Bonn, a sign on the city-jail gate reads: "Persons wishing to give themselves up will be admitted only weekdays from...
...night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies on how to do such things as lay more bricks in less time. Edwin Booz's instinct was to concentrate on the big questions involving basic company strategy, new products, sales ideas. His first big break came in 1925, when Sewell Avery hired his firm, then in a one-room back office, to help streamline U.S. Gypsum. This led to a larger commission from Avery on how to reorganize Montgomery Ward during the Depression. In 1935, the firm's marketing-research side was strengthened...
...lowered into tiny graves to ascend as tiny angels, would-be suicides snatched back at the dark river's edge, pregnant maidens abandoned by heartless cads. This is the Dickens who wrung out Victorian soap opera's dampest hour, and posted "cry now" signs at every chapter break...