Word: breakaway
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With only 200,000 members in a traditional stronghold of Roman Catholicism, Italy's Protestants have had a long and painful struggle to gain the right to worship freely. Until 1848, the 35,000 Waldensians-descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant in the 16th century-were forbidden to attend universities, practice law or medicine, or open new churches. The unification of Italy brought an invasion of Methodist and Baptist missionaries from Britain and the U.S., but Mussolini's 1929 agreement with the Vatican made Catholicism the state church, and Fascist...
...elections, and the proceedings often resemble a carnival as much as a contest. The biggest crowds last week gathered to hear the top rivals: Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, 48, the world's only woman Prime Minister, and bachelor Dudley Senanayake, 53, whose conservative United National Party was supported by breakaway members of Madame's Freedom Party...
Brown reached the finals the hard way--by upsetting top-seeded B.U. The Bruins scored two early breakaway goals while short-handed, and then hung on by keeping out 24 B.U. shots in the third period...
Then the heavens burst as Howard Dale of Yale hit another jump shot and teammate Bob Trupin added two more points on a breakaway. Scenting disaster. Harvard coach Floyd Wilson switched into zone defense, but the damage was done. Harvard never was close to the lead again...
...made it 2-0 at 19:04 on a shot to his far corner that went in off the post. Aldie Harrington had Harvard's best scoring chance on a breakaway, but shot right into the Northeastern goalie...