Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point Hiss abruptly broke in. "I don't need to ask Mr. Whittaker Chambers any more questions. I am now perfectly prepared to identify this man as George Crosley ... on the basis of his own statement that he was in my apartment at the time when I saw he was there. If he had lost both eyes and taken his nose off I would be sure...
Feuding Man. Earl broke with Huey, spoke of him publicly as a "big-bellied coward" and set out to oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...
...Babe to autograph three baseballs, the Babe said: "Who for?" For a bedridden boy, explained the stranger. "Where is he?" asked the Babe. He insisted on riding the twelve miles to deliver them in person. The boy's mother led the big fellow into the sickroom, and broke into tears as her son sat up in bed. "He's been delirious," she said, "and he thinks he's dreaming...
...week before, Sloan had cut off any further talk with the unions that he blamed for the shutdown (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week, he and six other board members huddled all one afternoon with the union representatives in a Grand Tier-floor room at the Met. When the meeting broke up, one union leader told reporters: "After all, we all left the meeting together, and nobody had any black eyes...
...Fare. It was 4:33 when the police ticker tapped out the news. City rooms broke into a well-ordered uproar. Flagged by telephone, the reporters at Babe Ruth's hospital hustled over to the consulate in a taxicab. They almost missed their editions: all four had just been cleaned out in a poker game, and the cab driver refused to let them out until they had ransacked their pockets for enough nickels & dimes...