Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fighting the back-to-work order issued by a lower court, union counsel Arthur J. Goldberg said that in enacting the Taft-Hartley law Congress "passed the buck to the Supreme Court to break strikes...
Chet Boulris, who had a field day at Penn, Bruce MacIntyre, who also looked good last Saturday, and Charlie Ravenel, who has shown talented signal calling in every game this season, will be the trio that will make or break the all-important varsity offense...
...creation, which holds that matter is still being created. The newly created matter is generally believed to appear throughout space in the form of hydrogen atoms (one proton and one electron each), but Gold and Hoyle now think it may first appear as neutrons. Since neutrons are unstable, they break up almost immediately, yielding equal numbers of protons and electrons. This neutron decay releases so much energy that the resulting "cosmological material" has the temperature...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...
...tentative recognition came in 1951, when a single early painting of Mabe's was accepted for Rio's National Salon. The honor was enough to make Mabe's father-in-law relent, and Mabe began to paint again. Two years ago he decided to make the break, sold out the family's small plot of land at a loss and set off for Sao Paulo to paint, and sell ties. On his own, he developed his present style, in which a basic, slashing, abstract expressionist manner is given style by hints of the elegant lines...