Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Murray, a quiet man who works in a quiet way, Hillman got a man he could work with in C. I. O., a man opposed to Communist union control, who would not let bitterness alone prevent healing the breach between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. This was considerable, despite Murray's first words as president ("I protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford...
...present time England and Germany are deadlocked. Up to now we have been willing to pour planes and material into the breach in order to help the British in their fight to stave off invasion. But that phase of the war is at an end. Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally...
Dick Harlow thought that MacKinney, with only one afternoon of scrimmage at the quarterback post under his belt, was a bit uncertain on his blocking and shoved George Helden into the breach at the end of the first quarter. The MacKinney experiment will be continued this week, however, in the hope of finding a way to set the ball moving. . . . Princeton tried a pass play with Rose throwing the ball for the first time this year. Rose started off to his left and was about to throw a left-handed pass to two unguarded mates deep in Harvard territory when...
...bonds, he arrived in Wall Street with a rifle under his arm, was joshed by friends: "Harry's loaded for wolves." The rifle was actually taken along for repair, but Sportsman Bauer sold the bonds for a then record 3¾%- the first bonds to breach the 4% interest level for utilities...
...this point, Commodore Tattnall in command of the American Asiatic squadron came to the assistance of the hard-pressed British in violation of his neutrality. Said Tattnall, "Blood is thicker than water." This breach of neutrality by Commodore Tattnall was later sustained by public opinion and by the U. S. Government...