Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon's successful television campaign and gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What a break! This Czech thing is just perfect. It puts the soft-liners in a hell...
...previous divorce measures. By last July, however, the bill had won wide support. Then-time out for a government crisis. When the debate resumed this fall, 100 Christian Democratic Deputies filibustered against the bill. Replying to their protests, Sponsor Fortuna said: "Even now it is possible to break up a family by buying a fiscal stamp for 400 lire [66?]-the price of an application for a legal separation." Outside Parliament, demonstrators waved banners reading "Even Viet Nam has divorce" and "Divorce is for everyone...
...could face the worst labor trouble of the year: a strike by 15 shop unions against the major railroads. The indications last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President Nixon will probably have to break his pledge to keep hands off union disputes and request special legislation to settle the walkout. Whatever the outcome, the U.S. has reason to be uneasy. Unions will have to negotiate new contracts for some 4,000,000 workers next year-in what seems certain to be a climate of business slowdown...
...YORK. Dec. 4-The Crimson basketball team held its own against highly rated St. John's tonight, but a consistent fast break by the Redmen and a few poorly chosen shots by Harvard gave St. John's a seven-point lead early in the second half which it never relinquished. The Crimson lost...
Bozek led the Crimson with 18 points, and guard Dale Dover added 16 on fast break lay-ups and twisting drives...