One senior player is said to have returned from a recent international break hoping for a rest and was met with an ultimatum of whether he wanted to play in the next game.
Which raises an interesting question: does preparing a horse to win the Triple Crown, which means months of relentless training — without so much as a break for rest and relaxation — followed by three Grade I races in five weeks, put the animal in such a state of excitement that he can't settle down enough to run the kind of race needed to win the Belmont?
Drivers seem to focus on the swiftness with which they can pass Interchange 1. "They actually did a good job," Cornell Neitzell, 57, of Milford, Pa., said while stopped last month for a bathroom break at a rest area just north of the plaza, on his way home after a vacation in North Carolina.
A prickly debate For some reason, MPs are on a break for the rest of this week, having sat daily through school half-term.
But it is a break for the rest of the N.F.C. that Seattle did not gain home field, where it could have taken advantage of their deafeningly loud stadium.
Following the debate, Thompson campaigned in New Hampshire before taking a break for the rest of the month.
After setting a heat record in Burbank yesterday by hitting the 100-degree mark, don't expect much of a temperature break for the rest of the week.
The crisis for the Air France jet, an Airbus 330, began shortly after its captain had left the cockpit for a rest break.
Athletes and musicians often report that they get "cold" during a break from the activity (even for a rest period of a mere five minutes); when practice resumes, a warm-up period appears to be an intrinsic requirement of efficient performance.
A lull probably occurred early in the afternoon, and a break for rest and food would probably have been needed.
