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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turkey & Potions. But work done did not interfere with political jockeying. Democrats who had begun to sidle away from the President's stand against tax reduction broke into an undignified jog. Minority Leader Alben Barkley let it be known that a $4 billion cut might be acceptable. Les Biffle, Harry Truman's eyes & ears in Congress, departed to talk turkey with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, who was vacationing in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Since peace broke out at Potsdam, the Paris meeting has been the only crisis created by the West, the only time anti-Communism has taken the ball. The rest of the time the West has been waiting-like poor old Benes in Prague-and every day of waiting the cat creeps closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...first two periods were loosely played, but Harvard broke into flames at the start of the final frame, sinking three in 22 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Scalp Crimson Five, 56-48; Skaters Romp Over St. Nick's, 9-2 | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

Young Arthur MacArthur, the general's only son, broke out with chicken pox in Tokyo on the eve of his tenth birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...after twelve years the bottom has dropped out of it too. Or at any rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: O!d Playlets in Manhattan | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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