Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Punch hurried valiantly into the breach with a supposititious Tourist Council brochure, which assures impoverished Americans that they are still welcome in Britain, where "our hospitality can be tailored to your diminished purse." Some helpful items...
...blasts would be trapped in the earth's magnetic field like the sun-borne particles of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, March 30, 1959). The experiment worked fine, but when the New York Times finally broke the story six months later, U.S. authorities were disturbed at the "breach of security" involved. And even after most details of Project Argus became public knowledge, the exact times of the blasts were never announced-apparently because Washington officialdom hoped the Russians could not get this information by themselves...
...equally formidable barrier is that a leading exponent of conserving the electoral system is the man who benefited most from it this year. Said Jack Kennedy in 1956, as he led the Senate fight against a proposal to reform or abolish the electoral college: "[The proposal] would be a breach of the agreement made with the states when they came into the Union . . . When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change...
...Adams blocked Noel Wilson's penalty kick, and it seemed that the Crimson was out of danger. However, the referees claimed Adams' heels had been raised above the goal line before the shot, in what was to them a breach of the rule requiring the netminder's feet to be on the stripe. Wilson didn't miss again...
...ambition: "One friend of mine put it very well when he said, 'That s.o.b. has been trying to get on the stage for 40 years.' " Last week when a star of his long-running Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, abruptly quit, the author-cartoonist trouped into the breach. With only two rehearsals, under Director Burgess Meredith ("Now I have him at my mercy; I can tell him that as an actor he has no right to change the author's words"), Thurber played himself with fluffless finesse in a twelve-minute sketch about a writer embroiled...