Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turbulent spring of 1946, when the U.S. was paralyzed by a railroad strike, Harry Truman stormed into Congress and gave Alexander Fell Whitney, co-leader of the strike, one of the savagest verbal rawhidings ever dealt a private citizen by a President of the U.S. With that, he broke the strike. Beaten and embittered, Al Whitney swore that he would use his union's last penny to humiliate and defeat Truman. "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk," he bellowed...
...developed a conscience in you old age, he scorned; but if that isn't it, well what? Surely I'm myself, he thought. Surely that. But when I remember what I said and did I wonder how I could have seen so little of myself and my life. Vag broke his tension with a smile. Well, after all--dammit, no; I WAS a student vagabond, was, he repeated, and if I laugh I will be still...
Spivak, a Sophomore who locked even more boyish alongside veterans like Barney Ewell, Eddie Conwell and Herby Thompson, was reasonably nerveless in all three sprints. He beat Herby Thompson in one of the qualifying heats, nailing second place. In his semi-final heat he broke on top and led all the way, winning in 5.6. Then came the final. The Crimson sprinter was way over his head in this one, finishing fifth behind Barney Ewell...
...last night, Stillman Infirmary had only two casuaties to report. A pair of students who broke down during one of their tests were rushed to hospital beds and kept incommunicado "until they were able to think clearly again...
Slight, soft-spoken Béla Bartók, who left fascist Hungary in 1940, had lived his last years in the U.S. and died broke and unrecognized (except by a few) in Manhattan. If his music was played at all in his lifetime, it was usually for one hearing only, or before tiny groups of enthusiasts. Few of his works had been recorded while he was alive, and they had not sold well. Rehearsal for Critics. On the same afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue...