Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architect; together, they found just the place for it. It would be inconspicuously tucked away behind the pillars of the White House's south portico, at the second-floor level. The plans were drawn, the money ($15,000) set aside from White House maintenance funds. Then the storm broke...
Scuffling broke out and then some cool-headed peacemaker switched off the lights. After a few seconds of total darkness, cigarette lighters flashed like fireflies on a summer night. And that was enough...
Back in Venezuela, Gabaldón reviewed his problem. Half of his countrymen suffered from malaria at one time or another. It broke the spirit as well as the body. "People with malaria just don't care," says Gabaldón. "They don't even care if you treat them." As a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in protozoology, Gabaldón had learned that the chronic malarial "lose even the desire to procreate." Gabaldón decided...
Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias was chosen 1947-3 "woman athlete of the year," in the annual A.P. sportwriters' poll. It was the fourth time for the versatile Babe, the third time in a row as a golfer. She was also woman of the year in 1932 (when she broke the Olympic hurdling and javelin records...
Early lead in the hearts derby has been assumed by a mysterious foreign trio, reported by some to be the same men who broke the jaywalking rule in front of the Coop last week. These three desperate characters have left a trail of broken banks and stacked decks after only a fortnight of gaming. Liggett N. Myers '50, consistent loser to the shadowy group, blamed his setbacks on the constant ape-like chatter and periscope eyes of the lanky ensemble...