Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply announced that she had abandoned her faith and become a Moslem, which automatically dissolved her Hindu marriage. Immediately afterwards she announced that...
...agreed with American military advisers that a new commander, rather than more American supplies, was needed to speed up the campaign. Their choice: Lieut. General Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff at Athens GHQ and main author of the plan for Operation Coronet. As Kitrilakis took over, the stalemate broke. Greek assault troops broke through the old rebel defense line and kept on going...
With good-natured ferocity, the crowd delayed the Prime Minister half an hour. But when mounted police charged in and foot policemen began swinging their lathis, Nehru winced, perhaps recalling the days when British-led police broke the knees of revolutionary demonstrators. But no one was hurt; Nehru's police had learned how to miss...
...sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
...Good Turn. Off New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG 38441 arrived to rescue the grounded cabin cruiser Esmunda, broke down, was rescued by the Esmunda...